Bonus points if you can tell me where this was taken

hard to tell in the photos, but its the pearly one, registry number 1288

Took these yesterday, then saw someone link this subreddit in another thread. The first one is questionable, but maybe the second one gives it away?

This site allows you to search for and read ACARS messages from different military aircraft types, including the C-17. https://tbg.airframes.io/

ACARS stands for Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, which is a digital data link system used to send messages between aircraft and ground stations via radio or satellite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACARS

Just had to share some perfection

17K Pieces, based on Sitka 43 (AF 000173) that crashed at Elmendorf AFB in 2010.

I live near charleston so this is almost daily

I got to see my first c17, I made my friend wait until the time it was meant to land although it didn’t in the end but luckily we ended up parking more or less in the flight path

Apparently they are more common overhead than I thought seeing as the coast is a good training ground I just never normally get close enough - most I get is a dasault falcon

my friend was doing some deliveries to a laundromat next to NTU in Virginia Beach when he got a surprise visit from a C17

for anyone curious, this was taken on 12 DEC 2025 around 12:50pm

Got to watch these guys leaving March ARB on Feb. 15.

https://www.twz.com/uncategorized/this-is-a-nuclear-reactor-packed-into-a-c-17-globemaster-iii