On 18 October 2000, Hubble Space Telescope's new solar array arrives in The Netherlands aboard a United States Air Force transport plane. The C-5 cargo plane, carrying two trucks loaded with the array and associated test equipment, left the U.S. from Andrews Air Force Base and landed at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
After rolling off the C-5 cargo plane in Schipol, the trucks were escorted in a convoy to ESA's facility in Noordwijk for testing.