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A C-17 touches down on the Phoenix Airfield, the first landing of a wheeled aircraft on the new landing strip. Phoenix Rising
Features / Operations
Monday November 21, 2016
When a C-17 cargo plane landed at McMurdo Station's recently completed Phoenix runway on Tuesday, Nov. 15, it meant that the station's newest airfield had passed its final test and is now ready to receive planes and passengers from the U.S. Antarctic Program's port of departure in New Zealand as early as February.

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