Huge C-17 fuselage arrives in Seal Beach
The largest aircraft structure ever to visit Seal Beach was carefully trucked down Pacific Coast Highway before dawn today and delivered to a dock at the weapons station, where the 170-foot long body of a C-17 cargo transport will be loaded aboard a specially modified Army transport ship.
(A large photo essay and video will be posted shortly by photographer Eugene Garcia.)
The 50-ton fuselage will then be ferried to Virginia, via the Panama Canal, a roughly 5,800 mile journey that will take about three weeks. The fuselage will be used as a static vessel at Ft. Lee, Virgina for the training of personnel who unload and load C-17 cargo aircraft.
The wingless and tailless fuselage was trucked 9 miles, from Boeing’s C-17 assembly plant in Long Beach, to Seal Beach, during the middle of the night to minimize traffic problems. Even so, police had to divert motorists on to sides streets, or turn them around, so that crews could guide the truck driver down Pacific Coast Highway to Seal Beach. The truck reached the city about 3 a.m. and, at one point, drove on the center divider at PCH and 5th Street to avoid hitting a street light. The truck was part of a convoy of utility workers and police, and a trucker that picked up tree branches knocked down by the plane.
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(A large photo essay and video will be posted shortly by photographer Eugene Garcia.)
The 50-ton fuselage will then be ferried to Virginia, via the Panama Canal, a roughly 5,800 mile journey that will take about three weeks. The fuselage will be used as a static vessel at Ft. Lee, Virgina for the training of personnel who unload and load C-17 cargo aircraft.
The wingless and tailless fuselage was trucked 9 miles, from Boeing’s C-17 assembly plant in Long Beach, to Seal Beach, during the middle of the night to minimize traffic problems. Even so, police had to divert motorists on to sides streets, or turn them around, so that crews could guide the truck driver down Pacific Coast Highway to Seal Beach. The truck reached the city about 3 a.m. and, at one point, drove on the center divider at PCH and 5th Street to avoid hitting a street light. The truck was part of a convoy of utility workers and police, and a trucker that picked up tree branches knocked down by the plane.
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