Malta-based Challenge Group’s new airline, Challenge Airlines MT, has started flying a 767-300ER on its recently certified Maltese air operator certificate (AOC) and will soon begin commercial, cargo-only flights before it is converted to a full freighter. Challenge Group told Cargo Facts that it has reconfigured the 1999-vintage unit 30301 (ex-Pegas Fly) to only carry
Mammoth Freighters will set up its first 777 conversion site in Europe at the STS Aviation Services facility in Manchester (MAN), England. The first induction will take place around mid-2024, according to an STS release. STS said it will also be responsible for aircraft-on-ground (AOG) services, product support and spares provisioning for Mammoth’s customers in
FARNBOROUGH, England Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) expects the first flight of its 777-300ERSF conversion by yearend and is on track to become the first with a flying freighter prototype for the Boeing widebody. IAI told Cargo Facts at the Farnborough International Airshow 2022 that it has now completed the conformity unit’s (32789, ex-Emirates) large
The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR)’s WERX program at Wichita State University will partner with Precision Aircraft Solutions and 321 Precision Conversions to carry out 757 and A321 freighter conversions at NIAR’s facilities at McConnell Air Force Base (IAB). NIAR told Cargo Facts that it expects to begin working on its first A321-200PCF conversion
AerCap has now secured contracts and letters of intent for sixteen of its 777-300ERSF conversions, according to CEO Aengus Kelly during the company’s Q1 2022 earnings call today. The world’s largest lessor holds eighteen firm 777-300ERSF conversion orders and twelve options with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). The prototype aircraft (32789, ex-Emirates) is undergoing conversion in