Air Freight NZ

Air Freight NZ
IATA code :	1st floor
ICAO code :	TFR
Call sign :	GREAT FREIGHT
Founding:	1989
Seat:	Palmerston North , New Zealand
Turnstile :	Christchurch Palmerston North
Home airport :	Auckland
Management:	Mark Lasenby ( CEO )
Fleet size:	6th
Aims:	national
Website:	www.airfreightnz.co.nz

Air Freight NZ is a New Zealand cargo airline based in Palmerston North and based at Auckland Airport .

Destinations

Air Freight NZ offers regional charter and cargo flights .

fleet

Air Freight NZ Boeing 737-300F

As of September 2019, the Air Freight NZ fleet consists of six cargo aircraft :

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks
BAe Jetstream 31	1		operated by Originair
Boeing 737-300F	1		operated by Airwork
Convair CV-580F	4th
total	6th	-

In addition, Air Freight NZ used Convair CV-5800 and Douglas C-47B in the past .

Incidents

Air Freight NZ has had two fatal incidents in its history:

• On July 31, 1989, a Convair CV-580 ( aircraft registration number ZK-FTB ) had an accident while taking off at Auckland Airport . The artificial horizon of the first officer was broken anyway and was in contradiction of the aircraft remained in service. There were two new first officers in training and a master on board. The aircraft climbed to 400 feet after take-off and then sank again to crash 387 meters after the end of the runway in Manukau Harbor .
• On October 3, 2003, a Convair CV-580 ZK-KFU freighter of Air Freight NZ suffered a stall on the flight from Christchurch to Palmerston North while flying through a zone with extreme icing conditions due to heavy ice formation and crashed into the Tasman Sea at Kapiti Coast . In the crash, the structural load limits of the machine were exceeded, so that it broke apart while still in the air. The two pilots on board died (see also Air Freight NZ flight 642 ) .

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Air Freight NZ  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of Air Freight NZ (English)
• Photos of Air Freight NZ on airliners.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rzjets.net - Air Freight NZ (English), accessed on December 12, 2016
2. ↑ Air Freight NZ ( Memento from June 18, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on June 18, 2016
3. ↑ Data on the airline Air Freight NZ in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on July 17, 2016.
4. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of July 31, 1989 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)