First Boeing C-17 retires at Edwards AFB

This edition of the DEW Line is brought to you courtesy of\nthe TSA and US Airways... I am stuck at Sky Harbor, but the show must go on.

At Edwards Air Force Base, the US Air Force's first Boeing\nC-17 Globemaster is being retired. But fortunately it is going to the USAF\nmuseum in Dayton, Ohio, rather than the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona.\nThe aircraft had flown at the California base for some 21 years.

Known as T-1, tail 87-0025 first flew on 15 September 1991,\nwhen it was delivered from what was then McDonnell Douglas's Long Beach\nplant. 

Here is T-1 as she took-off for the last time on 23 April 2012,\non her departure to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.