A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport plane, tail number RCH4555, landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on the morning of August 25, according to data from Flightradar24.
The plane left Riga around 8:50 a.m. Moscow time and touched down in Moscow around 10:00 a.m. Flightradar24 has since stopped tracking the flight, meaning the aircraft has either landed or moved outside the service’s coverage area.
Two days earlier, on August 23, the RCH4555 had flown into Riga from Camp Springs, Maryland — home to Andrews Air Force Base, where Air Force One, the plane used by the U.S. president, is based.
Update. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said he had no information about the U.S. Air Force plane that landed at Vnukovo. He added that no meetings with U.S. administration officials are planned at the Kremlin this week.
Russian authorities have spent recent months expecting a visit from U.S. presidential special envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who have served as intermediaries between Moscow and Kyiv during earlier rounds of peace talks — a process that has since stalled.
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