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Fuselage construction for the first lot has
already begun at the Boeing’s Long Beach
facility here, company sources told India
Strategic but gave no details.
UAE announced an agreement with Boeing in January
this year for the C 17s. Four of these aircraft
are due be delivered in 2011 and two in 2012.
“The C 17s will give the UAE the ability
to perform a variety of humanitarian and strategic
lift operations around the world in support of
both national and international missions,"
Major General Staff Pilot Faris Mohamed Al Mazrouei
had said while making the announcement in Abu
Dhabi.
"These missions require us to be ready for
any contingency at any time and any place, and
the
C-17 meets our requirements,” he had observed.
The UAE is the second Arab country to go in for
the C 17s after Qatar, which has already taken
delivery of two of these strategic lift aircraft.
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