Every three years we used to have to ship off our 500 pound $490,000 Wild RC30 aerial camera for cleaning and calibration. First to Canada for the only guy in North America that could service it, and to the USGS for the calibration.
We would strap it all down to a palette, and use FedEx freight. They would send a truck with a lift gate, and a pallet jack. It would coost us 20 grand just to ship it off and get the services done and return it. We put shock sensors on it and insured it for the full replacement value.
That camera is now a paperweight and just a cool item to look at and admire the engineering.
That is the camera in the gimble mount in our Cessna 2006 that came from the factory with a 20 inch hole in the floor for the camera. The water bottle is for scale.