Construction operations are complete to build a C-17 load trainer facility at Fort McCoy's Young Air Assault Strip on South Post, according to the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works (DPW).

Contractors work on the new C-17 load trainer facility March 20, 2023, at Young Air Assault Strip on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. Contractor Veteran Range Solutions received a contract for ...

USAF, or The United States Air Force, has a "baby" C-17, otherwise known as the miniature version of the popular military cargo plane that is used to bring supplies and soldiers to various parts of ...

The first C-17 Globemaster III Boeing produced took to the air in September 1991 and the United States Air Force had first dibs, purchasing a total of 223 of them. Boeing delivered the first C-17 in ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a program in December 1979, known as the Cargo-Experimental (C-X) competition, as a means of finding a new strategic airlift aircraft that was ...

CNN’s Chris Cuomo examines the audio of an air traffic controller reacting to the amount of people on a C-17 plane leaving Afghanistan.

Boeing is reportedly considering resuming production of its C-17 Globemaster III jet, discontinued in 2015. That's going to be quite a trick since the Long Beach, California factory that made the ...

The C-17 Globemaster III isn't as old as planes like the famously ancient (yet still remarkably effective) B-52 Stratofortress, but it's still getting to be a little long in the tooth, as it has been ...