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By the 1990s, the A300 was being heavily promoted as a cargo freighter. [16]: 24 The largest freight operator of the A300 is FedEx Express, which has 70 A300 aircraft in service as of September 2022. UPS Airlines also operates 52 freighter versions of the A300. [31] The final version was the A300-600R and is rated for 180-minute ETOPS.
Largest A300 operator Finnair: 2 Galaxy Airlines: 2 Ceased operations in 2008 Garuda Indonesia: 9 13 Georgian Star International 3 Ceased operations in 2015 Geo Fly Airways 1 Global Air Transport 1 Leased from Air Stork Global Jet UAE 2 GrandAir 5 Hapag-Lloyd Flug: 9 1 A300-600 leased from Lufthansa: Iberia: 9 Indian Airlines: 10 4 Iran Air: 8 ...
The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter), or Beluga, is a specialised wide-body airliner used to transport aircraft parts and outsize cargoes.It received the official name of Super Transporter early on, but its nickname, after the beluga whale, which it resembles, [1] [2] gained popularity and has since been officially adopted.
It has a fleet of Airbus A300-600F General Freighters, which the airline was the launch customer of. Its head office is located on the fourth floor of the South Tower of Cathay Pacific City. [1] Air Hong Kong was founded in November 1986 by three local businessmen and commenced charter services with a Boeing 707-320C freighter on 4 February 1988.
Note: "F" stands for freighter aircraft. "SF" stands for special freighter aircraft, which are converted from passenger aircraft. FedEx Express operates the world's largest cargo air fleet with more than 650 aircraft, [43] and is the largest operator of the Airbus A300, ATR 42, Cessna 208, DC-10/MD-10, and the MD-11.
On 22 November 2003, shortly after takeoff from Baghdad, Iraq, an Airbus A300B2-200F cargo plane, registered OO-DLL and owned by the Belgian division of European Air Transport (doing business as DHL Express), was struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile while on a scheduled flight to Muharraq, Bahrain. [1]
The airline was established in 2004 as Experts Air Cargo and was renamed in 2006. [1]In 2011, it announced the purchase of three Airbus A300-600 previously operated by Japan Airlines for freighter conversion by EADS EFW in Dresden, Germany.
UPS Airlines Flight 1354 (5X1354/UPS1354) was a scheduled cargo flight from Louisville, Kentucky, to Birmingham, Alabama.On August 14, 2013, the Airbus A300 flying the route crashed and burst into flames short of the runway on approach to Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport.