What's this plane.

[conkerman]

Was browsing the boneyard on google earth.

What plane is this?

Cheers.

[pjfry]

Boeing YC-14?

https://pimaair.org/museum-aircraft/boeing-yc-14/

[conkerman]

Looks Bob on, Thank you.

Never heard of it before. Cool bit of kit.

[Eric Mc]

Two aircraft were built for a USAF specification for a short-field performance strategic cargo aircraft, the Boeing YC-14 and the McDonnel Douglas YC-15. In the end, the US government decided not to go ahead and the two aircraft were only built as prototypes.

However, the later McDonnel Douglas C-17 Globemaster II uitilised a lot of work that had gone into the YC-15. Ironically, McDonnel Douglas was bought out by Boeing so now the Globemaster is referred to as the Boeing C-17.

[pjfry]

It's an interesting looking thing. My first thought was something Russian like an AN-72. But Google came to my rescue.

[Eric Mc]

Antonov is actually a Ukranian company. Yes, they did supply the Soviet Union and later the Russians but I don't see that happening again for a while.

The An-72/74 family utilised the same principles as the YC-14 and appeared a few years later.