Charleston Air Force Base
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Charleston Air Force Base is a United States military facility located in the City of North Charleston, South Carolina. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force's 628th Ai
A C-17A Globemaster III of the 437th Airlift Wing taking off from Charleston AFB
C-130 on taxiway with C-17's parked in the background at Charleston Air Force Base (2014)
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Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
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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
Charleston Air Force Base
…also provide expeditionary Airmen to combatant commanders in support of joint and combined operations. The 437th Airlift Wing (437 AW) operates the C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlift aircraft in support of its mission to provide airlift of troops and passengers, military equipment, cargo, and aeromedical equipment…
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