Aviation in Malta September 2020 (US Air Force Edition)

Last month I went back to Malta to see my family during the current situation thankfully, their ok. September was mean't to be Malta International Airshow 2020. Because of the pandemic & rising cases in Malta, the airshow was postponed to September 2021.

For me when I arrived I didn't do alot of spotting only for local airliners such as Air Malta, Malta Med Air, Malta Air and Maleth-Aero. I did see other airliners in Malta so I will not include this blog. This month was special becasue we had special visitors coming all the way from the United States so let's take a look what us Maltese air spotters have seen.

US Air Force 07-7181 Boeing C-17 Globemaster III taken 26th September 2020.

                    Before the main attraction, this Boeing C-17 Globemaster III arrived for a stopover. 

US. Air Force 07-7188 Boeing C-17 Clobemaster III taken 30th September 2020.

Before the main aircraft touches down into Malta on 29th September, we had another Boeing C-17 Globemaster III. First of all, any US Air Force aircraft in general encase of US President, Vice President, US Diplomats or Secretary who are on the US Air Force planes on Boeing 747's or 757's etc are followed by this C-17. So when for example President Trump is airborne, another aircraft follows it. 

US Air Force 80002 Boeing C-32 taken 30th September 2020.

The main visitor. This is US Air Force Two normally carrying U.S. vice president. This flight did not have U.S. Vice President onboard due to the upcoming US Presidential Election so what we have on this aircraft was United States Secretary of Defence Mark T. Esper arrived on 29th September from Andrews Air Force Base, USA holding talks to our Maltese leaders. I won't go into more encase of security concerns online. The aircraft left on 1st October & C-17 followed it. This is a Boeing C-32 a modified Boeing 757-200. If you go back into 2015 blog I've travelled to the United States & spotted Air Force One when former President Barack Obama was in power visiting Las Vegas. 

Other US Air Force planes I've missed out was a Boeing C-40 Clipper and C-37 Aircraft.