For those who don't have Instagram. Same picture that UPS posted yesterday.
https://twitter.com/UPSAirlines/status/1418549067366506502?s=19
MD11F N265UP has been painted at Grissom Aeroplex Peru, Indiana (GUS) and was ferried to Louisville (SDF) with callsign 5X9599 at July 20th 2021, see : https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N265UP/history/20210720/1900Z/KGUS/KSDF No picture yet of N265UP in full UPS livery. UPS just posted a picture ...
Jump to postSo here's a UPS Fleet question or three: Are the LDS mods on the 767s on pause for some reason? Although I may have started keeping track after a couple were done, I still show 13 as unmodified, not counting the 5 leased from CAM. That means at least 56 have been completed, which is cool. However, ...
Jump to postWhat kind of loader will Fedex be using to load/unload this aircraft? A normal cargo loader would be too tall. Fork lift only? FX would never use a forklift. It's against company policy to even lift a loaded container with a forklift, interfacing with a plane would be out of the question. Some new ...
Jump to postFrom our friends at West Cost Aviation. N503AZ does not appear to have any extra colors on it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMXsqvzBrXO/?igshid=llndamqqp6xm
Interesting note on the 5th MD-11F coming from Lufthansa. N265UP is already showing in the FAA registry linked to MSN 48803. That matches up to D-ALCK.
Jump to postI posted in the Lufthansa MD-11 thread. With a few updates. D-ALCI has been officially retired from Lufthansa. Ferried FRA-SAT LH8152. Going to UPS as N264UP. N264UP shows in FAA registry now. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/id/GEC8152-1611817589-0-1-115 From Lufthansa Cargo's instagram page. So...
Jump to postD-ALCI has been officially retired from Lufthansa. Presumably going to UPS since it was flown to SAT.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/id/GEC8152-1611817589-0-1-115
Cheers as always wjcandee...any hours/cycle info on the 3 recent PW birds they’ve resurrected from the boneyard? On the subject of stored B747F’s is there anything left of those 2 DL bought from SQC, think they were ex 9V-SCA/B? Only N756CA is showing any entries in the FAA SDR database. As of 27Au...
Jump to postBesides those you mentioned, FX still has a few MD10. Real DC-10, I beleive there is one or two in Bolivia. Also the Orbis flying hospital The Orbis flying eye hospital is a MD-10. It was donated by FedEx in 2016. https://www.orbis.org/en/what-we-do/flying-eye-hospital/flying-eye-hospital-history
Jump to postCurrently an AA767 is on its way to Cincinnati from Shannon, is this a freight only flight? https://fr24.com/N388AA/269c0748 This 767 is supposed to end flying for Amazon under tail number N227AZ. ATI will fly the airplane on behalf of Amazon. The Amazon thread has a lot of information about all of...
Jump to postLAXintl wrote:Lufthansa uses B777F to airlift 80 tonnes of food from Frankfurt to Doncaster Sheffield Airport as truck shipments remain stuck.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55424448
N605DL, ATI's last-remaining 757 straight freighter, is now doing back-and-forths daily DFW-TPA. It was on DHL, for whom ATI pulled it out of retirement. But I don't see DHL needing this kind of service. Post office? This one's a head-scratcher. I'm thinking UPS. If you search flights between TPA-D...
Jump to postJust "after peak." Shrug. Juicy, but vague. Guy also looked down at the Kalitta bird and mentioned they were also going to be taking 777Fs. I don't know how accurate that is. From this thread, they will be taking 3 777-300 ERSF from GECAS. They operate a several factory 777F on behalf of ...
Jump to postAlready being discussed
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1425857
First flight for UPS to pickup vaccines has landed in LAN. It's scheduled to depart at 11:21 EST. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/id/UPS9601-1607811774-1-5-126 https://flightaware.com/live/flight/id/UPS3477-1607822281-5-3-159 https://twitter.com/FlyLouisville/status/1338133626135977985?s=19
Jump to postSimilarly, the head of UPS in the last few months proudly talked about how she had decided AGAINST buying the final 747-8Fs that Boeing could make. She didn't want the metal. Kinda weird when they're suffering with Western Global because they currently need lift, unless she truly doesn't expect it ...
Jump to postA couple of observations from SDF. I drove around the airport Saturday and Sunday. N512JN has been parked on the ramp for the past few days with #2 engine cowls opened up. Earlier this year it was discussed in another thread that WGN was having issues sourcing green time CF6 engines. I wonder if WG...
Jump to postA couple of observations from SDF. I drove around the airport Saturday and Sunday. N512JN has been parked on the ramp for the past few days with #2 engine cowls opened up. Earlier this year it was discussed in another thread that WGN was having issues sourcing green time CF6 engines. I wonder if WGN...
Jump to postLooks like N392AN is scheduled to enter service with ATI flying for UPS. It's showing scheduled to fly ILN-SDF.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/id/ATN8710-1606744370-6-0-199
ABX just sent N740AX to SDF.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/id/ABX8706-1606749837-1-0-146
Looks like 919CA may be getting a light check at SAT this weekend. National usually has them down for no more than a few days, then back in the air. Same thing happened during the PPE bridge flights. As I recall, those light checks were done at MCO, where National lives, so this is a little interes...
Jump to post543JN, 512JN and 415JN -- Western Global MD11s -- moved or are moving from LAX to ONT, early on Monday, 11/23. I think we know who that means they're about to be working for... It's not as easy to tell as it used to be anymore. FX just opened ONT as a regional hub operation, not just a ramp anymore...
Jump to post756CA got a white-background National livery, perhaps to save time or cost in the painting. We will see what the other two get, if anything. The three currently-operating have little or no downtime between flights, so it stands to reason that National would like to get these aircraft into service r...
Jump to postI think behind the wing is preferred for CG concerns, but you have to have enough fuselage behind the wing for the deck loader and tugs and other equipment to have room to maneuver without banging into things like flap track fairings. A 777 has enough room; the DC10 might not. I think there's also ...
Jump to postDiamondFlyer wrote:Scope wouldn't allow a CRJ to be flown by anyone but UPS seniority list pilots
N393UP has been delivered to UPS today (10/1/20), on an interesting delivery flight. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N393UP Formerly CC-CZT, it was converted 7/4-9/2/20 in TLV, delivered to LCQ, and then up to ILN about 2 weeks ago, presumably for the LDS to be installed. Don't know if it was p...
Jump to postIMHO UPS is evaluating the situation and can wait some time to watch the latest developments in the cargo market and order in a later stage at least 3 more 747-8F aircraft, when needed. Seen the sharply increasing (structural) maintenance cost of 747-400 aircraft, passing the thresholds of 120.00 f...
Jump to postThe next 767-300F for UPS, N372UP. Finally performed it's B1 flight on 21Sep20.
http://kpae.blogspot.com/2020/09/paine-field-september-21.html?m=1
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/id/BOE300-1600721684-0-0-173
Ishrion wrote:Lufthansa's CEO says three MD-11s will stay until early summer 2021:
https://twitter.com/SpaethFlies/status/ ... 2223738880
HAECO seems to have finished up on N304CM at LCQ after 12 days, and it is flying out tomorrow to ILN with its new tail number, N393UP. Presumably it will get the Collins LFDS upgrade there. Totally-secondhand information is that the first 3 of this group of 5 leased from CAM did not get that upgrad...
Jump to postUPS took delivery N395UP from CAM today.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/id/UPS9107-1599136998-14-2-227
No single aircraft type makes the best fire fighting tanker. Each one has it's advantages and disadvantages. Helicopters and smaller aircraft are cheaper to acquire thus they can be spread over large area. The smaller aircraft and helicopters can operate from numerous bases. Having multiple aircraft...
Jump to postFWIW, I think that N304CM is still at TLV. There were some emissions that suggest that it was moving around the airport this morning, Israel time. N304CM is still at TLV. It was on another test flight today as BDK18. Evidently it did not pass its initial test flight. https://flightaware.com/live/fl...
Jump to postMO11 wrote:Onward to Grissom for paint?
Oh they just want to keep us guessing. is this plane all tied Ups..?? Funny! It's non-FADEC so it won't be going to UPS. The last two of the 5 to UPS should be 304CM (to be 393UP) and 308CM (to be 395UP). The latter is now painted and ready for delivery when AMES is through with it at ILN. The form...
Jump to postEdit: I have one question for the experts here: why doesn't this 767 have winglets? I'm not an expert. FedEx doesn't have winglets on any of their 767s. A few years ago they had them on some leased 767s. IIRC all of them have been returned now. Winglets are not installed from the factory. They are ...
Jump to postEdit: I have one question for the experts here: why doesn't this 767 have winglets? I'm not an expert. FedEx doesn't have winglets on any of their 767s. A few years ago they had them on some leased 767s. IIRC all of them have been returned now. Winglets are not installed from the factory. They are ...
Jump to postMost of the dedicated 744F's powered by RB211 engines are still active, Most were original purchased by Cathay and Cargolux. Cargolux has 10 RR RB-211 powered 744F aircraft operational. Silkway West Airlines has three RB211 powered 744F's operational. Sky Gates Cargo Airlines has two RB211 powered ...
Jump to postThose crosswind landings are cool, but here the wind was close to straight down the runway, albeit gusty. Atlas just came out today with record earnings and gave lots of applause to its CEO for his (hardball) strategy in dealing with the pilots, which they emphasized was entirely his. Disgraceful. ...
Jump to postFor express courier services like UPS and FedEx, the acquisition cost matters much more than for other cargo carriers. Since most express courier packages are shipped overnight, the aircraft are parked for most of the day and only fly a couple of short cycles overnight. And, as we know, a plane tha...
Jump to postLooking at the flight history of 5X9867. It is regularly scheduled flight 3 days a week that rotates between SBD and ONT. UPS has a significant presence at SBD.
Jump to postIMHO UPS is evaluating the situation and can wait some time to watch the latest developments in the cargo market and order in a later stage at least 3 more 747-8F aircraft, when needed. Seen the sharply increasing (structural) maintenance cost of 747-400 aircraft, passing the thresholds of 120.00 f...
Jump to postI with the crew that says it was internal. A GSE Fire would have scored more of the lower outside. What is scary is how long a fire can smolder with limited oxygen inside a ULD before a rupture delivers, and then takes off with the new air supply. ‘Ve seen some good suppression systems for ULDs, an...
Jump to postNow reiterated by Lufthansa’s CEO - all MD-11s will be retired by the end of this year: https://mobile.twitter.com/SpaethFlies/status/1276159386583531524 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Cargo#Current_fleet says they have seven 777-200F with two more coming in the near future. I presume the ...
Jump to postThe 20th of June marked the 25th anniversary of the first flight of 767-300F. N301UP was used for flight testing and certification. Later that year Boeing delivered it to UPS on October 24, 1995. https://twitter.com/BoeingAirplanes/status/1274371468135149570?s=19 UPS gave some stats on N301UP. As of...
Jump to postIIRC some of the runways at CVG are a mix of concrete and asphalt.
Jump to postAmerijet has been operating a flight in and out of SMF. It’s a PHL-SMF-PHL run. I heard they were doing USPS. Maybe the ramp lead was mistaken? Hadn't heard about that. Are we sure that it's not Parcel Direct stuff, where Amazon packages are delivered in the last mile by the Postal Service? I would...
Jump to postAny idea when the two to be leased Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM) 767-316BDSF aircraft are joining the UPS fleet (N393UP & N395UP) ? I don't know when they are to join our fleet. I would bet late summer. I do know that after conformity checks in SDF, we send them on a speed route to join our i...
Jump to postProbably the only reason why it’s starting so big with two A300s a day. They will not start with two A300s per day. The press releases says. https://pressroom.ups.com/pressroom/ContentDetailsViewer.page?ConceptType=PressReleases&id=1589388817917-286 Gary will be served by a UPS Airlines Airbus ...
Jump to postIndeed great to see her back flying across the Pacific and her old domain of Japan! Any news on when they will get their newly acquired ex-Atlas 747 back to circling the globe? I was curious about N344KD hours and cycles so I ran FAA SDR query on her and found one dated from the day of her turn bac...
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