At about 10 p.m. today, a 50-ton wingless C-17 aircraft shell and its transport cradle will make a slow nine-mile road trip from the Boeing Co. Aircraft facility adjacent to the Long Beach Airport to the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station, said Gregg Smith, Public Affairs Officer for the Naval Weapons Station in Seal Beach
Police will accompany the transfer of Static 1, the old C-17 fuselage Boeing donated to the U.S. Army. It had been used for initial testing during the C-17 program's early days.
To move the 150-foot-long, 25-foot-high aircraft shell, streets will be closed at portions of southbound Cherry Avenue, eastbound Willow Street, southbound Lakewood Avenue, and southbound Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach, as well as southbound PCH and southbound Seal Beach Boulevard in Seal Beach.
Once at the Seal Beach base, the fuselage will be loaded onto the Army transport vessel, SSGT Robert T. Kuroda, and travel east to its future home at the U. S. Army Transportation Center and School in Fort Eustis, Va.
Police will accompany the transfer of Static 1, the old C-17 fuselage Boeing donated to the U.S. Army. It had been used for initial testing during the C-17 program's early days.
To move the 150-foot-long, 25-foot-high aircraft shell, streets will be closed at portions of southbound Cherry Avenue, eastbound Willow Street, southbound Lakewood Avenue, and southbound Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach, as well as southbound PCH and southbound Seal Beach Boulevard in Seal Beach.
Once at the Seal Beach base, the fuselage will be loaded onto the Army transport vessel, SSGT Robert T. Kuroda, and travel east to its future home at the U. S. Army Transportation Center and School in Fort Eustis, Va.
Karen Robes Meeks came to work for the Press-
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