The Air Force’s 220th new-build C-17 transport is scheduled to touch down on Wednesday at JB Lewis-McChord, Wash., according to base spokeswoman SSgt. Frances Kriss. This airplane, which will arrive from Boeing’s plant in Long Beach, Calif., will be the last new-build C-17 slated for the large air mobility hub, Kriss told the Daily Report on March 25. McChord maintains a fleet of 48 assigned C-17s. The new arrival will not change that total as the Air Force rotates C-17s between bases. Members of McChord’s 62nd Airlift Wing and Air Force Reserve Command’s 446th AW jointly operate the base’s C-17s. McChord received its previous new-build C-17 on Feb. 20. It was the 219th C-17 that Boeing supplied to the Air Force. The Air Force has ordered 224 C-17s overall and currently doesn’t plan to buy more.
A new Navy missile could fill a long-range air-to-air need for the U.S. Air Force’s fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-generation fighters. The Navy’s portfolio acquisition executive for munitions posted information on the AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile online on Aug. 22, the same day it unveiled the project at the service’s…