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Royal Air Force – 8 C-17A ERs in use as of May 2021 [202] [210] [211] No. 24 Squadron, RAF Brize Norton [211] No. 99 Squadron, RAF Brize Norton [211] United States. United States Air Force – 222 C-17s in service as of January 2018 [202] (157 Active, 47 Air National Guard, 18 Air Force Reserve) [59]
The 517th Airlift Squadron provides airlift operating Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and Beechcraft C-12F Huron aircraft. Supporting worldwide airlift, airdrop, airland requirements while providing airlift for theater deployed forces and resupply of remote Alaskan long-range radar sites in support of United States Pacific Command, North American Aerospace Defense Command, and United States ...
The powerplant first flew on the C-17 in 1991. Still maintaining the F117 engine for the U.S. military, Pratt & Whitney received a $5.5 billion contract modification in June 2023 for engine sustainment in San Francisco, California; Columbus, Georgia; and Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, through September 2027.
The eight C-17s are part of a 190-member unit manned by active Air Force personnel from the 535th Airlift Squadron and the Hawaii Air Guard's 204th Airlift Squadron. When established in 2008, it was the first active joint Air Force and Air National Guard unit outside of the mainland. In July 2018 a C-17 of the squadron collected 55 cases of ...
At 222 feet across, almost 300 feet in length, and 65 feet above the ground, Lockheed Martin's C-5 Galaxy is the largest transport aircraft in the US Air Force.. With a cargo hull 121 feet long ...
On 17 January 1995, the 17th Airlift Squadron was declared the first operationally ready C-17 squadron. [3] The 17th was the first unit to set up forward deployed C-17 operations, at the start of Operation Enduring Freedom. [4] The 17th Airlift Squadron recently stepped up to the plate once more and created another expeditionary squadron.
C-17 of the 437th AW airdrops pallets of water and food to Mirebalais, Haiti, 21 Jan 2010. The 437th Airlift Wing (437 AW) is an active unit of the United States Air Force, assigned to 18th Air Force, Air Mobility Command. It is the mission wing at Charleston Air Force Base, Joint Base Charleston, in the City of North Charleston, South Carolina.
U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III from the 517th Airlift Squadron dropping equipment and Airborne Infantry from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division during a joint training exercise.