An Air Force general speculated that the C-17 Globemaster III would remain in service until 2075, even after its NGAL ...

The Air Force plans to award a 10-year firm fixed price contract at the end of fiscal 2027 to RTX‘s Pratt & Whitney for the ...

The Air Force says it could have a next-generation military transport aircraft in service as soon as 2041, but it still wants ...

The head of air mobility for the US Air Force (USAF) says the service is eyeing the mid-2040s to field a new strategic airlifter. The still-conceptual transport is envisioned as succeeding both the ...

The C-17 Globemaster III is a highly capable cargo aircraft used by military operators, and it is powered by four Pratt & ...

On Apr. 10, 2025, a C-17 from Joint Base Lewis-McChord became the first in the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command to take fuel from a commercially contracted KDC-10B. Omega Air Refueling, based in ...

With thousands of Americans, Afghans and third-party foreign nationals seeking to leave Afghanistan following a takeover by the Taliban, hundreds of people packed into an Air Force C-17 cargo plane ...

Until April 2, mass deportation of noncitizens was a distant story, almost theoretical somehow. At the least, it strained belief that mass deportation was happening in the United States. But on that ...

The C-17 Globemaster is an Air Force cargo plane that transport troops and supplies around the world and conducts medical evacuations. News reports surfaced this week that the Trump administration was ...

The Air Force currently has no plans to recall retired pilots. An airman guides a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster after it returned from delivering cargo to Baghdad, Jan. 9, 2016 to a base in an ...