Qatar C-17

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McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, Calif., was awarded a $64,400,000 modified contract to the C-17 Globemaster III Sustainment Partnership contract to incorporate the sustainment support for two Qatar Emiri Air Force C-17 aircraft for FY09-11. At this time, $6,678,700 has been obligated. MSWE/516 AESG/PK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting activity (FA8614-04-V-2004).

This was paid by the USAF as foreign military sales.

That is for sustainment (maintenance and support), not the aircraft purchase price. If you can buy one C-17, let alone two, for $64M you have quite a bargain.

It will have a "sister", so it will be interesting to see what it looks like.

Actually, the plain Jane sister was first. The contract couldn't be signed soon enough so it got painted in the standard gray color. Maybe it will get repainted in the other scheme during the first depot paint cycle.

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Sister ship is plain Jane compared to the Prince's ride, looks militaryish. Had the pleasure of seeing them together in beautiful sunny Qatar. Rumor has it ship two is going to Altus as a training bird,