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17 December 1984

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Lockheed C-5A Galaxy (U.S. Air Force)
Lockheed C-5A Galaxy (Technical Sergeant Bill Thompson, U.S. Air Force)

17 December 1984: At Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia, Jesse Thomas Allen set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record for the Greatest Payload Carried to a Height of 2,000 Meters (6,562 feet), lifting 111,461.57 kilograms (245,730.70 pounds) aboard a Lockheed C-5A Galaxy.¹

During the same flight, Allen established a National Aeronautic Association United States National Record for the Greatest Recorded Weight at Which Any Airplane Has Ever Flown of 920,836 pounds (417,684 kilograms), after the Galaxy had refueled in flight.

The U.S. National Record remains current.

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¹ FAI Record File Number 8901

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