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IAF's C-17 Globemaster's maiden flight to Port Blair

Issue No. 13 | July 01-15, 2013

The first of the ten Boeing C-17 Globemaster III of the Indian Air Force (IAF) landed at the Hindon Air Base on June 18. It was received by Air Marshal S. Sukumar, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff at the Hindon Air Base, where it would be based.

With the training of the air crew and the ground crew being conducted by the United States Air Force (USAF), the Indian Air Force had accepted the delivery of the aircraft on June 11, 2013, at Long Beach, California.

The aircraft also has made its maiden flight to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on June 30, 2013. Climbing an altitude of 28,000 feet with an unrefuelled range of 2,400 nautical miles, the aircraft landed at Port Blair to induct the rotational Infantry Battalion into the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.