On Feb 26, inside Boeing’s Long Beach manufacturing facility, C-17 employees pieced together the nose, center fuselage, wings, and tail for the last time. Plane 279 marks the final, “major join,” of the C-17, and will be the final plane to come off the assembly line.
NEWS Piecing a C-17 Together (Video)
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