{"id":3364,"date":"2019-12-25T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2024-02-25T01:50:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T22:50:19","slug":"3364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Boeing delivered its final C-17A to the Indian Air Force on August 26 when the airlifter touched down at Hindon Air Force Station, Ghaziabad.<\/strong><br><br><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-3365\" style=\"width: 1200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-11-Final-C-17A-Globemaster-III-Delivered-to-Indian-Air-Force.jpg\" alt=\"Final C-17A Globemaster III Delivered to Indian Air Force\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-11-Final-C-17A-Globemaster-III-Delivered-to-Indian-Air-Force.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-11-Final-C-17A-Globemaster-III-Delivered-to-Indian-Air-Force-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2019-11-Final-C-17A-Globemaster-III-Delivered-to-Indian-Air-Force-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br>The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center delivered the last available C-17 to the Indian Air Force on August 22, before it was ferried to India. (Photo by USAF)<\/em><br><br>The Globemaster III is the 11th example delivered to No 81 Squadron \u2018Skylords\u2019. The C-17A was among the last 10 \u2018white tails\u2019 produced by Boeing at company expense and had been stored at the contractor\u2019s San Antonio, Texas, facility. On March 30, 2018, Boeing received a $262-million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to deliver the aircraft to India, which is the largest international operator of the aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sou<strong>rce:<\/strong> By Tom Kaminski \/ Combat Aircraft journal &#8211; December 2019<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em><strong>Bh<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>aratiya Vayu Sena<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news.asp?newst=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Asian \u00a9XAirForces News Editor <\/a>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_country.asp?id=155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">India<\/a>)<\/em><br><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_country.asp?id=155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indian Aviation <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_country.asp?id=155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news.asp?newst=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a9<\/a><\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_country.asp?id=155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">XAirForces News<br><\/a><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3364\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Final C-17A Globemaster III Delivered to Indian Air Force<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing delivered its final C-17A to the Indian Air Force on August 26 when the airlifter touched down at Hindon Air Force Station, Ghaziabad. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center delivered the last&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1670,36,19,173,1683,1723,1,7,18],"tags":[376,3496,3497,215,214,205,97],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}