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One crashed as UPS Airlines Flight 1354. Boeing 747-400BCF: 2 — Boeing 747-400F: 11 — One crashed as UPS Airlines Flight 6. Boeing 747-8F: 30 — Largest operator of its type. Acquired second-hand aircraft in 2024. [34] Boeing 757-200PF: 75 — Launch customer of its type. Boeing 767-300BCF: 6 — Boeing 767-300BDSF: 4 — Boeing 767-300F ...
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 .
List of the largest cargo airports in the United States based on weight of landed cargo in US pounds (freight + mail) since 2008 (note: this list includes airports in U.S. territories). Rank (2022)
Prior to its civil usage, the facility was George Air Force Base, from 1941 to 1992 a United States Air Force flight training facility. The airport is home to Southern California Aviation, a large transitional facility for commercial aircraft. [1] As a logistics airport, it is designed for business, military, and freight use.
The 93,000-square-foot (8,600 m 2) Airline Support Building, which houses cargo operations and storage areas for aircraft provisions, and serves as a pick up and drop off point for live animals and large cargo, opened on July 20, 2021.
Because of UPS, Louisville is the sixth-busiest cargo airport in the world, and the third busiest in the United States. [12] [23] Although UPS has had a hub at Louisville since 1980, the term was not used officially by the company until 2002, after a $1 billion, five-year expansion. [24] Previously, the project was named Hub 2000.
In 1970, United Airlines started a nonstop to Chicago and American started flights to Dallas (and Chicago, for a short time). In September 1986, Ontario hosted the Concorde supersonic airliner during a promotional round-the-world flight. [13] In 1981, a second east–west runway, 26L/8R, was built, necessitating the removal of the old NE-SW ...
On February 17, 1981, Air California (AirCal) Flight 336 (a Boeing 737-200), with 105 passengers and five crew members, was flying from San Jose, to John Wayne Airport and crashed upon initiating a go-around. The crew was cleared for a visual approach to Runway 19R while the controller had cleared a smaller plane to take off from 19R.