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The 436th Airlift Wing is an active unit of the United States Air Force, stationed at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.The wing operates Lockheed C-5 Galaxy and Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, and is assigned to Air Mobility Command's Eighteenth Air Force.
Dover's first Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy, (Modified C-5B 86-0025), "Spirit of Global Reach", arriving on 9 February 2009 Dover's newest Boeing C-17A Globemaster III 07-7177 banks during a flyover before it landed on 9 September 2008. The 436th Operations Group is an active United States Air Force unit.
Significance: Blue and yellow are the Air Force colors. Blue alludes to the sky, the primary theater of Air Force operations. Yellow refers to the sun and the excellence required of Air Force personnel. The globe signifies the scope of the unit's responsibilities. The delta and contrail symbolize the unit's support of space operations.
President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, walk off a military airplane at Dover Air Force Base to attend the dignified transfer of fallen service members on August, 29, 2021. AFP via Getty Images
Space-available travel, also known as Space-A travel, is a means by which members of United States Uniformed Services (United States Military, reservists and retirees, United States Department of Defense civilian personnel under certain circumstances), and these groups' family members, are permitted to travel on aircraft of the Air Mobility Command under the jurisdiction of the United States ...
Dover AFB is the first air force base to receive the new C-5M "Super Galaxy", receiving the aircraft on February 9, 2009 (named "The Spirit of Global Reach"). [ 9 ] On February 2, 2015, the 9,600 foot runway 01-19 was closed for repairs.
Relocated to Dover AFB, DE, 1 January 1965. Redesignated 9th Military Airlift Squadron on 8 January 1966. It also flew missions to Southeast Asia from 1965 to 1968 with C-141 Starlifters, discontinued, and inactivated, on 8 September 1968. Activated on 1 April 1971, with C-5 Galaxys.
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