Sep 9 2022

The Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) honored its commitment to participate at two airshows a year with representing the programme in Uppsala, at the Swedish Armed Forces' Airshow on 27 August.

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Sep 8 2022

A Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) C-17 and crew spent a week training on airdrops with cargo and personnel, loading oversized cargo and practicing ground to air defensive maneuvers in the Luleå area of Member Nation Sweden.

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Aug 12 2022

Romania is using the Strategic Airlift Capability to send firefighters, special vehicles, and other means of intervention to France, where wildfires near Bordeaux have already destroyed 7,400 hectares and forced 10,000 people to leave their homes.

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Jul 18 2022

Fairford, 18 July 2022 - Over 30,000 people walked through an open Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) C-17 last weekend as it was one of the hit sensations at UK's Royal International Air Tattoo, RIAT.

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Jun 23 2022

The multinational unit bid farewell to an American, a Dutch, and a Swedish squadron commander and welcomed another American, another Swedish, and a Norwegian one.

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May 13 2022

The Strategic Airlift Capability has completed its 3,000th mission in its 13-year history. In 13 years, all 12 Member Nations had significant missions carried out, and frequenting mission destinations changed together with history.

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Apr 26 2022

Pápa, 26 April 2022 - Hungarian Defense Forces Pápa Air Base together with Hungarian Ambulance Services and Hungarian Firefighting Services held an Emergency Response Exercise with the Strategic Airlift Capability and one of its C-17-s in focus.

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Feb 13 2022

Pápa, ​13 February 2022 - One of our three C-17-s landed today in Kiev, Ukraine delivering cargo for the Ukrainian Army on behalf of our Member Nation Lithuania.

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Aug 29 2021

Kecskemét, 28-29 August 2021 - SAC staff greeted aviation enthusiast and distinguished visitors during its static C-17 display at the International Kecskemét Airshow organized by the Hungarian Defense Forces.

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Aug 27 2021

Pápa, 27 August 2021 - The 12-nation crew of the Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) evacuated 2,299 people from Kabul, Afghanistan in 14 missions.

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Jul 15 2021

15 JULY 2021 – PÁPA - US Air Force Colonel James S. Sparrow passed over command of the Strategic Airlift Capability's multinational operational arm, the Heavy Airlift Wing to Swedish Royal Air Force Colonel Peder Söderström on 8 July 2021 in Pápa, Hungary.

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Jun 29 2021

29 JUNE 2021 – PÁPA - The SAC team of multinational aircrews, command and control experts, loadmasters, aerial porters, Boeing maintenance professionals conducted the Strategic Airlift Capability's first operational staged operation ever in Otopeni, Romania to pull out as much cargo and personnel as possible in a short period of two weeks.

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