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Caption for photo: The first production Air Force/SOCOM variant CV-22 fuselage built at the Boeing plant in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania is loaded into a C-5 Galaxy at Philadelphia International Airport before a flight to Bell Textron in Amarillo, Texas for final assembly. For several years now, the V-22 program has employed the services of Air Force C-17 and C-5 aircraft to deliver the MV-22 fuselage to Amarillo, but this was the first time a CV-22 (special ops variant of the Osprey) was shipped that way. (Photo by Boeing)