{"id":665,"date":"2025-08-01T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/?p=665"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:57:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:57:36","slug":"flam-15-to-17-for-two-c-17s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/aviation\/other-missions\/flam-15-to-17-for-two-c-17s\/","title":{"rendered":"FLAM 15 to 17 for two C-17&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aircraft Involved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>FLAM15 - KC135 AE0262 61-0321 mission code: 8PZ 155R 1S 212\nFLAM16 - KC135 AE066E 62-3569 mission code: 8JZ 155R 2S 210\nRCH878 - C-17     AE2FAF 08-8203 mission code: PMR J155 RP 211\nRCH870 - C-17     AE2FAE 08-8202 mission code: PMR J157 RP 213\nRCH870 - C-17     AE20C2 07-7181 mission code: PMR J157 RP 213 Took over from 08-8202 mid mission (Ramstein)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1b6fea8a99366197db76a964cdef37f9\">The first mission on the 31st July involved the 2 tankers, out of EGUN, refuelling the C-17 (RCH878) near Gibraltar<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1460\" height=\"663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FLAM15-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-666\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The C-17 routing was Mesa (Phoenix KFFZ)) &#8211; Alexandria (KAEX) &#8211; McGuire &#8211; OTBH &#8211; \u00a0Benazir Bhutto airport, Pakistan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9be7eb897ae87ca8cfeecfa3109a2c76\">Second mission &#8211; 1st August 2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Involved refuelling RCH870 by FLAM 17 &#8211; 61-0321 over the Atlantic but this mission failed for unknown reasons and the aircraft diverted to ETAR &#8211; the mission was taken over by C-17 AE20C2 07-7181<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1052\" height=\"631\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FLAM17-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-667\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Routing Mesa &#8211; McGuire &#8211; (Ramstein) &#8211; UDYZ (Armenia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s thought both these flights were repatriation flights Both tankers returned to the states on 3rd August 2025 as CLEAN31\/32 for Coronet 009E &#8211; 3rd August 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aircraft Involved: The first mission on the 31st&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[37,65],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-missions","tag-aircraft","tag-flam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}