Attendees viewing the C-5A ‘City of Fairborn’ prior to the start of the ceremony. The 445th Airlift Wing flew the Lockheed Martin aircraft for nearly six years out from the southwest Ohio base.
On a near perfect autumn afternoon, approximately 100 people came to say goodbye to a familiar friend of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base community for over the past six years. Last Friday, the base’s 445th Airlift Wing held a farewell ceremony for the C-5A Galaxy transport aircraft, the largest in the US Air Force’s fleet. Wing commander Colonel Stephen D. Goeman hosted the event at Hangar 4016 near the base flightline and tail number 00047—dubbed ‘The City of Fairborn’—served as the backdrop for the event.
