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SAC Supports Exercise Saber Guardian 2017
24 JUL 2017 – PÁPA - - The Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) supported Exercise Saber Guardian with two C-17’s conducting air drop and air land operations in Bulgaria and Romania, 13-23 July.
Change of command at the Heavy Airlift Wing
06 JUL 2017 – PÁPA - - At a ceremony on the Strategic Airlift Capability premises at Pápa Air Base, Colonel Bjørn Gohn-Hellum assumed command of the Heavy Airlift Wing.
SAC Programme Receives First Permanent C-17 Engine
19 JUN 2017 – PÁPA - - The SAC Program have received delivery of its first-ever permanently stationed C-17 engine. The 11-million dollar Pratt and Whitney F117 engine, which is the most expensive single piece of a C-17, gives the SAC the capability to replace an entire engine on the C-17, usually within 24 hours.
Strategic Airlift Capability Pays Tribute to Fallen Hungarian Soldiers
26 APR 2017 – PÁPA - - On Wednesday 12 April, the Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) conducted a local low-level training mission to support the commemoration ceremony for Hungarian soldiers killed in an aircraft accident that occurred in Jutaspuszta near Veszprém on that same date in 1941.
Local Airdrop Training - Ready When the Mission “Drops”
27 MAR 2017 – PÁPA - - Every month the Heavy Airlift Wing conducts local airdrop training in one of the drop zones near Pápa Air Base. Key players in this training event are the Heavy Airlift Squadron and Aerial Port section of the Logistics Support Squadron.
Breaking New Ground - First SAC Mission to Timbuktu
17 JAN 2017 – PÁPA - - In late November 2016, SAC completed its first mission directly to Timbuktu in Mali. Previous missions have gone to Bamako, the capital of Mali. There the cargo has been transferred to other smaller Aircraft i.e C-130’s, for further transport to Timbuktu. The mission was carried out on request from Sweden, and the cargo consisted of personal equipment to the Swedish soldiers in the fifth rotation of the Swedish deployment in Mali.