HeavyLift Cargo Airlines

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Heavylift Cargo Airlines
IATA
HN
ICAO
HVY
Callsign
HEAVY CARGO
Founded 31 July 2002
Fleet size 4
Destinations Brisbane, Cairns, and Sydney.
Headquarters Rosebery, New South Wales, Australia
Key people
Website: http://www.heavyliftcargo.com

Heavylift Cargo Airlines Pty Ltd is a cargo airline based in Rosebery, Sydney, Australia. It started operations in 2004 and operates scheduled and charter cargo services. Its main base is Brisbane Airport.[1]

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[edit] Destinations

Heavylift operates both scheduled and charter cargo services between Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. In the future it has plans to expand its operations further into the Pacific and to Vanuatu.[1]

Currently, Heavylift Cargo operates an international freight service to Honiara, in the Solomon Islands.

[edit] Fleet

Heavylift's Belfast is registered in the Philippines as RP-C8020.
Heavylift's Belfast is registered in the Philippines as RP-C8020.
One of Heavylift's Boeing 727-100Fs waiting for cargo.
One of Heavylift's Boeing 727-100Fs waiting for cargo.

The Heavylift Cargo Airlines fleet includes [1] :

Other aircraft:

Heavylift is the operator of the world's only flying Short Belfast. A second Belfast is being refurbished at Southend Airport for delivery to Australia. Both of these aircraft were operated by namesake company HeavyLift, a former UK-based major freight airline specialising in outsize cargo. During 2006 work was also underway at Bournemouth Airport to refurbish another ex-HeavyLift aircraft, the unique Conroy CL-44-0; however it has been reported on various aviation internet message boards that this aircraft will not now be delivered. A feature of the airline is that it's aircraft are not registered in Australia, but in the Philippines. Although the main base is Brisbane, when not flying the aircraft are usually parked at Cairns Airport.

The company has plans in place to acquire one McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and a B747-200F wet leased from Kalitta may join the fleet for routes to Shanghai and on to Europe. [1] [2]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 90.