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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.
After an Airbus A350 production increase, Airbus aimed to deliver 880 aircraft in 2019, and raise A320neo output to 63 per month by 2021; the Beluga XL fleet was expanded with a sixth aircraft in June 2019. [10] The BelugaSTs could still have 10–20 years' flying life left, and may be offered for sale, or used to serve external customers. [10]
Before the Beluga, Airbus was using a fleet of Super Guppies, modified versions of 1950s Boeing Stratocruiser passenger planes that had previously been in service with NASA to ferry spacecraft ...
Blended wing body airliner for 1,214 passenger, 110 m wingspan [5] Sukhoi KR-860: 1990s: 639.73 tons Transport for 300 t payload or 860-1,000 passengers Double deck airliner: Skylon: 1993: 339.55 tons Reusable spaceplane, cancelled in 2024 Boeing 747X: 1996: 465.53 tons 747-400 stretch, Airbus A3XX competitor Boeing Pelican: 2002: 2657.36 tons
In addition to passenger duties, the A300 became widely used by air freight operators; according to Airbus, it is the best-selling freight aircraft of all time. [20] Various variants of the A300 were built to meet customer demands, often for diverse roles such as aerial refueling tankers, freighter models (new-build and conversions), combi ...
An Airbus A300 Beluga takes off from Hawarden in January 2007, carrying aircraft wings to Germany The company became part of Hawker Siddeley Aviation in the 1960s and the production of the Hawker Siddeley HS125 business jet, designed by de Havilland as the DH.125, became the main aircraft type produced by the factory for nearly forty years.
While ICAO designators are used to distinguish between aircraft types and variants that have different performance characteristics affecting ATC, the codes do not differentiate between service characteristics (passenger and freight variants of the same type/series will have the same ICAO code).
The massive Japan Airlines plane collision is the ‘first real test for a modern aircraft’ under distress and Airbus’s new lightweight carbon-fibre fuselege may have protected passengers from ...