The 97th Air Mobility Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to Nineteenth Air Force of Air Education and Training Command. It is stationed at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The wing is also
97th Air Mobility Wing C-17 Globemaster III
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Emblem of the 97th Air Refueling Squadron
The McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft developed for the United States Air Force during the 1980s and the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 c
97th Air Mobility Wing
…Air Education and Training Command. It is stationed at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The wing is also the host unit at Altus. It plans and executes McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III, Boeing KC-46 Pegasus, and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker pilot and aircrew training, providing formal school initial and advanced specialty training…
The prototype C-17, known as T-1, on a test flight in 2007
The McDonnell Douglas YC-15 design was used as the basis for the C-17.
Paratroopers dropping from a C-17 during a training exercise in 2010
A Royal Australian Air Force C-17 on final approach at Christmas Island Airport in 2016