This is the prototype C-17 and made her first flight on 15th Sept. 1991 flying from Long Beach to Edwards AFB, CA. After completing the test program for the Globemaster III she then became a testbed for the USAF, NASA and other flight-test agencies, as well as finding time to appear in quite a few blockbuster movies. She was retired at Edwards during 2011 and flown the following year to the National Museum of the USAF for display.

With the mighty Columbia River in the backrground, a C-17 from McChord AFB taxies out at PDX for its Sunday display at the Oregon Air Show over at Hillsboro, in rainy weather.

The prototype C-17 has since been moved to the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB.

Here at Prestwick for 2 days while on excercise during which the aircraft departed to Ramstein and came back again.

One of 8 C17s that I saw this day departing from runway 18 at 4-15pm in ideal sunny weather. (D60 ISO 100 1/500th @ F9.5 85mm)

With a Galaxy and an AirTransat Tristar in the background I'd take a lot of convincing that this shot was taken in 2005.

Waiting for duties at the Rhein-Main AB.

Touchdown on rw25L.

Thundering down rwy 25L for the flight display.