Linz-Hörsching Airport had an unusual guest with a Boeing C-17A Globemaster III of the US Air Force. The military aircraft was transferred from the German Ramstein Air Base to Upper Austria.

Sometimes you just need larger aircraft to transport bulky or many goods from A to B. The Austrian Armed Forces have no military aircraft that can be compared to the Globemaster in terms of capacity and size. So the domestic armed forces hired the US Air Force to carry out a transport.

So it happened that a Boeing C-17A Globemaster III landed at Linz-Hörsching Airport on Friday. Very often it does not happen that military aircraft from the United States of America land in Austria. This time the US Air Force came to carry out a transport order for the armed forces.

The 08-8196, which has its home base in Ramstein, Germany, was used. The four-engined transport aircraft is 11,8 years old and was delivered brand new to the USAF in March 2021. Flight number RCH291 was used for the flights. Several transport flights were carried out with this machine from Linz over the weekend.

When asked, the Austrian Armed Forces stated that the Globmaster was hired to transport supplies for the Austrian UN soldiers in Mali. The Austrian armed forces did not want to comment on what was exactly on board the US transport aircraft.

The following video shows the Boeing C-17A Globemaster III at Linz-Hörsching Airport: