Virtual Globetrotting: YC-15 Prototype

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YC-15 Prototype

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The YC-15 was McDonnell Douglas' entrant into the U.S. Air Force's Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST) competition, to replace the C-130 Hercules as the USAF's standard STOL tactical transport. In the end neither the YC-15 nor Boeing YC-14 was ordered into production, although the YC-15's basic design would be used to form the successful McDonnell Douglas C-17 of the 1990s.

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Trooper111 @ 2008-04-26 22:18:31

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kjfitz @ 2008-04-28 11:22:30

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34.63564434

Longitude:

-118.09680462

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Long Overdue Scavenger Hunt: Airplane - Current prototype (NOTES 2 & 4)

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Palmdale

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Transportation > Airplanes - Military - Parked - Cargo


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Comments:

Pdunn @ 2008-04-27 05:34:58

Same plane as http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/15459/, but captured in a different parking birth. Nice find.

kjfitz @ 2008-04-28 11:21:42

So it isn't the C-17 prototype, it is the YC-15 prototype. Technically it isn't a 'current' prototype but since it is a one of a kind prototype and Lockheed is obviously using it as a test bed it is a good submission for the contest. I've updated the title and description.

Trooper111 @ 2008-04-28 11:39:48

Thanks, I have another prototype but cannot find "picture" of it so i did not submit it.... But it's a prototype of the F-117... Would that count.

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