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Cargo airlines are airlines dedicated to the transport of cargo. The Federal Express was a passenger train operated on the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route. ... Biman Bangladesh Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is a three-engined long-range airliner, with two engines mounted on underwing pylons and a third engine at the base of the vertical stabilizer. ... A Boeing 747-400 of Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... For other article subjects named transport see transport (disambiguation). ... Cargo is a term used to denotes goods or produce being transported generally for commercial gain, usually on a ship, plane, train or lorry. ...


A few US cargo airlines use new or recently built aircraft to carry their freight, but most use older airplanes that normally would not be certified to fly passengers anymore, like the Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8, Ilyushin 76. Examples of the 60-year-old Douglas DC-3 are still flying around the world carrying cargo. Short range turboprop airliners such as the Fokker Friendship and British Aerospace ATP are now being modified to accept standard air freight pallets to extend their working lives. This normally involves the replacement of glazed windows with opaque panels, the strengthening of the cabin floor and insertion of a broad top-hinged door in one side of the fuselage. Pan Am 707 The Boeing 707 is a four engined commercial passenger jet aircraft developed by Boeing in the early 1950s. ... The Douglas DC-8 is a four-engined jet airliner, manufactured between 1959 and 1972. ... Douglas DC-3 VH-AES at Avalon in 2003. ... A Turboprop or turboshaft engine is a type of gas turbine. ...


A number of cargo airlines carry a few passengers from time to time on their flights, and UPS once unsuccessfully tried a passenger charter airline division. United Parcel Service, Inc. ... A charter airline is one that operates charter flights, that is flights that take place outside normal schedules, by a hiring arrangement with a particular customer. ...


These cargo airlines, amongst many others, have importance in the history of air cargo:

List of aircraft | Aircraft manufacturers | Aircraft engines | Aircraft engine manufacturers Airborne Express was an express delivery company and cargo airline. ... Air Hong Kong (香港華民航空) is the only all-cargo airline based in Hong Kong. ... Kalitta Air is an international cargo airline. ... Atlas Air Boeing 747-200 at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, Texas, USA, in March 2004. ... Burlington Air Express (now called BAX Global) is an international shipping company that is headquartered in Irvine, California, and has other major offices in Australia, Singapore, London, The Netherlands, and Toledo, Ohio. ... Cargolux (or Cargolux Airlines International) is one of the worlds major cargo airlines. ... DAS Air Cargo is an African cargo airline company. ... DHL Aviation is a cargo airline owned by DHL. It operates out of its main hub at Brussels International Airport, opened in 1985. ... Emery Worldwide was a cargo airline that was one of the main carriers in the cargo airlines world. ... The Federal Express was a passenger train operated on the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route. ... Fine Air McDonnell Douglas DC-8 at San Jose (Norman Y. Mineta International), California, USA, in June 1995 Fine Air is an international cargo airline. ... Flying Tiger Line, also known as Flying Tigers, was the first scheduled cargo airline in the United States and a major passenger charter operator during the Cold War era. ... Lufthansa Cargo is an air cargo company founded on November 30, 1994 as an independent logistics company within the Lufthansa group. ... Martinair aircraft at Amsterdam (Schiphol) Airport, the Netherlands (two McDonnell Douglas MD-11 and a Boeing 747) Martinair is both a charter and scheduled airline based in the Netherlands, with daily passenger or cargo charter and regular flights to many destinations around the world from Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam. ... National Air Cargo is an American Cargo airline. ... Categories: Stub | Companies for commercial item transport and distribution | Airlines of Japan ... ANA Boeing 747-481 All Nippon Airways (全日空 Zennikkū or 全日本空輸 Zen-nippon kūyu) ( TYO: 9202) is an airline headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ... Categories: Stub | Companies for commercial item transport and distribution | Airline companies of the United States ... Purolator is a Canadian courier service owned primarily by Canada Post. ... Singapore Airlines Cargo Boeing 747 Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA Cargo), the fully owned subsidiary of Singapore Airlines and incorporated in 1 July 2001, is the worlds second biggest airfreight carrier in terms of international freight tonne kilometers (FTK). ... TNT Air Cargo is an international cargo airline that operates from Papua New Guinea. ... Tol Air is a small cargo airline based at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ... United Parcel Service, Inc. ... A USPS Truck at Night A U.S. Post Office sign The United States Postal Service (USPS) is the United States government organization responsible for providing postal service in the United States and is generally referred to as the post office. ... Volga-Dnepr Airlines is a Russian cargo airline whose key business is providing Antonov An-124-100 Ruslan aircraft to transport outsize and heavy cargo. ... This list of aircraft is sorted alphabetically, beginning with the name of the manufacturer (or, in certain cases, designer). ... This is a list of aircraft manufacturers (in alphabetic order). ... List of aircraft engines: Piston engines Allison V-1710 BMW 801 Bristol Aquila Bristol Centaurus Bristol Hercules Bristol Jupiter Bristol Mercury Bristol Pegasus Bristol Perseus Bristol Phoenix Bristol Taurus Continental O-200 Daimler-Benz DB 601 de Havilland Gipsy Major Hispano-Suiza 12Y Hispano-Suiza 12Z Hitachi Hatsukaze Gnome Monosoupape... -1...


Airports | Airlines | Air forces | Aircraft weapons | Missiles | Timeline of aviation This list of commercial airports is indexed by their three-letter alphanumeric IATA airport code: The following web address (http://www. ... This is a list of airlines in operation. ... This is a list of Air Forces, sorted alphabetically by country. ... This is a list of aircraft weapons, past and present. ... Below is a list of (links to pages on) missiles, sorted alphabetically by country of origin. ... This is a timeline of aviation history. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Welcome To Air Cargo World -- News Updates (2224 words)
Cargo revenue for United Airlines declined 6.7 percent in the second quarter of 2006 to $181 million, reflecting weaker Pacific freight yield and the end of carrying domestic mail at the end of the period.
Continental Airlines cargo revenue fell 2.7 percent to $109 million in the second quarter, while overall revenue for the period was $3.7 billion, a 5.8 percent rise compared with the prior year.
With a volume of 689,000 tonnes, it is the second-largest cargo airport in Germany.
Aircharter International: Air Cargo Charter Aircraft, Transportation and Freight. (535 words)
Air Charter International provides Cargo Aircraft Charters to freight agents, corporations, oil companies, etc. Freight or Cargo aircraft are provided according to the requirements of the client and the nature of the cargo.
Cargo aircraft are chartered by airlines for transporting cargo to locations where the requirements of the landing strips are not met by their aircraft.
Cargo aircraft are chartered for transporting cargo over areas of restricted access, civil strife etc. where Chartered cargo aircraft can fly in to both international airports and rough landing strips.
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