HeavyLift Cargo Airlines

For the former UK Cargo Airline see: Air Foyle HeavyLift

Heavylift Cargo Airlines
IATA
HN		 ICAO
HVY[1]		 Callsign
HEAVY CARGO
Founded 31 July 2002
Fleet size 5
Destinations
Headquarters City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Key people Nicholas Leach
Website http://www.heavyliftcargo.com

Heavylift Cargo Airlines Pty Ltd is a cargo airline headquartered in Sydney, Australia. It started operations in 2004 and operates scheduled and charter cargo services. Its main base is Brisbane Airport.[2] HeavyLift took over passenger airline OzJet in 2008.[3]

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Destinations

Heavylift operates both scheduled and charter cargo services between Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.[4] In the future it has plans to expand its operations further into the Pacific and to Vanuatu.[2]

Currently, Heavylift Cargo operates an international freight service to Honiara, in the Solomon Islands. With 10 Scheduled flights per week operating from Brisbane to Honiara and Port Moresby.

Fleet

As of November 2010 the Heavylift Cargo Airlines fleet consists of:[2][5][6]

Heavylift is the operator of the world's only flying Short Belfast. This aircraft was operated by namesake company HeavyLift, a former United Kingdom-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 be delivered. (Although just recently engineers have started work on the CL-44 and reinstalling engines) A feature of the airline is that most of its aircraft are not registered in Australia, but in the Philippines, main base is Brisbane.

Heavylift recently claimed ownership of a Soviet era Ilyushin Il-76TD from a former operator. The aircraft is currently being fitted and redesigned and is expected to enter service in early 2011 or late 2010.

In may 2008 Heavylift bought passenger airline Ozjet Airlines giving it access to an Australia operating certificate.[1] Ozjet discontinued passenger operations in May 2009.

References

  1. ^ Federal Aviation Administration - Contractions FAAO JO 7340.2
  2. ^ a b c "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 90. 2007-04-03. 
  3. ^ "OzJet sells to HeavyLift Cargo Airlines". The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 May 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  4. ^ Heavylift flight schedule page. Retrieved: 5 December 2008
  5. ^ Superwombat.com image of Heavylift Boeing 727-200F RP-C8019. Retrieved: 11 September 2008.
  6. ^ Australian civil aircraft register search, using "Heavylift" as the search parameter. Search conducted 11 September 2008.

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Scheduled passenger airlines
Charter passenger airlines
Cargo airlines
Defunct airlines
see Defunct airlines of Australia