By Daily Republic staff
Travis troops welcome a C-17 delivered to the base on Tuesday. (Photo by Zachary Kaufman)
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE - Travis Air Force Base welcomed its 10th C-17 Globemaster III jet transport Tuesday morning, flown in by Brig. Gen. Scott Wuesthoff, Tanker Airlift Control vice commander for Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
This C-17 lands three weeks after the ninth Globemaster arrived here. The base got its first C-17 in August 2006.
Travis is slated to receive 13 of the modern airlift aircraft by the end of 2007. The base is expected to have all its aircraft by the end of summer at the latest.
The base is the only Air Mobility Command base to have three major airlift and air refueling aircraft - the C-17, the C-5 Galaxy transport and the KC-10 Extender air tanker.
