Australia 's C-17s have supported ADF operations around the world , including supporting Air Combat Group training deployments to the U.S. , transporting Royal Australian Navy Sea Hawk helicopters and making fortnightly supply missions to Australian forces in Iraq and Afghanistan . The C-17s have also carried humanitarian supplies to Papua New Guinea during Operation Papua New Guinea Assist in 2007 , supplies and South African Puma helicopters to Burma in 2008 following Cyclone Nargis , relief supplies to Samoa following the 2009 earthquake , aid packages around Queensland following the 2010 – 2011 floods and Cyclone Yasi , and rescue teams and equipment to New Zealand following the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake , and equipment after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami from Western Australia to Japan . In July 2014 , an Australian C-17 transported several bodies of victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 from Ukraine to the Netherlands
2009 earthquake
2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III