Airbus Transport International
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| IATA code : | 4Y |
| ICAO code : | BGA |
| Call sign : | BELOUGA |
| Founding: | 1996 |
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Blagnac , France
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| Home airport : | Toulouse-Blagnac airport |
| Fleet size: | 6 (+ 5 orders) |
| Aims: | within Europe |
| Website: | www.airbus.com |
Airbus Transport International is a French cargo airline based in Blagnac and based at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport . It is a subsidiary of Airbus , which moves mostly company-owned aircraft parts between the various production sites in Europe .
history
Airbus Transport International was founded in 1996 at the same time as the new Airbus A300-600ST Beluga large-capacity transporter was put into service . Its primary activity is the transport of pre-assembled components such as fuselage sections and wings for the manufacture of Airbus aircraft between Airbus' production sites.
Airbus Transport International's planes can now also be chartered . This possibility, for example, have the Bundeswehr to helicopter types NH90 and Eurocopter Tiger to Australia to carry and the ESA to ISS modules to Kennedy Space Center to transport exercised.
In November 2014, a fleet renewal was announced due to the aging Airbus A300-600ST Beluga fleet. A new model based on the A330-200 is being developed to replace the A300-600ST . At first, a version of the Airbus A330-300 was available, but was then rejected because the runway at the Airbus plant in Chester was too short. The first Airbus Beluga XL joined the existing fleet in mid-2019.
In April 2019, the planning for the fleet was increased from five to six units. The complete commissioning should take place by 2023.
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As of January 2020, the Airbus Transport International fleet consists of 6 cargo aircraft with an average age of 18.9 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Capacity (in t ) |
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| Airbus A300-600ST Beluga | 5 | Parallel use up to the delivery of all Beluga XL, afterwards they are taken out of service | 47 | |
| Airbus A330-700L Beluga XL | 1 | 5 | First in regular service since January 9, 2020. The remaining five will follow by 2023. | 53 |
| total | 6th | 5 |
See also
Web links
- Website of Airbus (English)
- Photos from Airbus Transport International on airliners.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services . Doc 8585, 180th edition. International Civil Aviation Organization, 2017, ISBN 978-92-9258-209-8 , ISSN 1014-0123 , 1-15 (English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese).
- ↑ Airbus - Airbus celebrates the first flight of the "Beluga" twenty years ago, September 12, 2014 ( Memento from October 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Thomas H. Wendel: Flying whale for the Bundeswehr. The Airbus Beluga is to transport military helicopters. In: Text archive. Berliner Zeitung , May 15, 2004, accessed on November 12, 2010 .
- ^ European-built ISS module welcomed to KSC. esa.int, June 12, 2009, accessed November 12, 2010 .
- ↑ European Astronaut Center in Cologne receives ATV training model. esa.int, May 1, 2003, accessed November 12, 2010 .
- ↑ Airbus - Beluga XL program achieves design freeze, September 16, 2015 (English), accessed on May 6, 2017
- ↑ a b Airbus' internal transport network takes an “X-tra” step with the BelugaXL. Airbus, April 9, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .
- ↑ planespotters.net - Airbus Transport International Fleet Details and History , accessed on January 13, 2020
- ↑ Airbus - Beluga A300-600ST (English), accessed on May 2, 2017
- ↑ Beluga XL: Airbus' giant whale enters service. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. January 13, 2020, accessed on January 13, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
