Congress recently asked the USAF for a briefing on the feasibility of buying new C-17s and allies have interest too.

The Pacific Ocean spans roughly 165 million square kilometers, dotted with thousands of islands across distances that dwarf ...

In 2015, Boeing wrapped up production of the C-17 Globemaster III, one of the most iconic military transport aircraft ever made. The last C-17 took off from its production facility in Long Beach, ...

Boeing is in the early stages of discussing a potential restart of C-17 Globemaster III production, announced at the 2025 Paris Air Show. Several countries have expressed interest, with one unnamed ...

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 ...

There are several cargo planes currently in use by the U.S. Air Force (USAF), but only one of them is described by America’s aviators as “the most flexible cargo aircraft to enter the airlift force”: ...

Why Boeing’s BC-17X civilian Globemaster failed: the real story behind the commercial C-17 concept, crushed by costs, fuel ...

Boeing has partnered with the U.S. Air Force to design and integrate a modernized flight deck for the C-17 Globemaster III. The upgrade will replace critical avionics with a modern, modular open ...

The U.S. Air Force has picked Boeing to update the flight deck of the company’s C-17 Globemaster III as the service expects to keep the airlifter flying for decades to come. Boeing on Feb. 9 announced ...