RAAF Globemaster makes first flight into Taji

RAAF C-17 has landed at the Taji Military Complex in Iraq for the first time, with the heavylift aircraft landing there on April 23 during the official visit of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Chief of Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin to Australian service peronnel in Iraq.

“We had not planned to use the C-17 for the Taji legs on that day but we had a maintenance issue with a Hercules that had transported the official party and we could not afford to delay them,” Wing Commander Grant Kelly, Commander of the Air Mobility Task Group from Joint Task Force 633, said.