Strategic Airlift Capability Heavy Airlift Wing C-17 Fleet Reaches 12.000 Flying Hours
Szöveg: honvedelem.hu / heavyairliftwing.org | 2013. november 17. 11:02Approximately six and a half months after reaching the significant milestone of 10.000 flight hours, the Strategic Airlift Capability Heavy Airlift Wing fleet of three Boeing C-17 Globemaster III long range cargo jets has exceeded a total flying time of 12.000 FHs.
Heavy Airlift Wing: 12.000 flight hour
The 12.000 flight hour mark was passed by HAW C-17 aircraft SAC 01 on a Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian combined mission on Wednesday November 13th.
The achievement comes six and a half months after the C-17 fleet of the multinational wing reached 10.000 flight hours on April 2, 2013.
Since its launch in July 2009 the Heavy Airlift Wing has carried out over 840 missions delivering over 36.220 tons (79.9 million pounds) of cargo and carrying over 47.000 passengers to serve the airlift needs of its 12 member nations.
Heavy Airlift Wing declared Full Operational Capability in November 2012. During year 2013 HAW has flown over 2800 flight hours and is expected to reach 3165 annual flying hours – meeting the target amount set to it by the SAC member nations.
