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The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter), or Beluga, is a specialised wide-body airliner used to transport aircraft parts and outsize cargoes.It received the official name of Super Transporter early on, but its nickname, after the beluga whale, which it resembles, [1] [2] gained popularity and has since been officially adopted.
Perhaps the most visually unique of the variants is the A300-600ST Beluga, an oversized cargo-carrying model operated by Airbus to carry aircraft sections between their manufacturing facilities. [20] The A300 was the basis for, and retained a high level of commonality with, the second airliner produced by Airbus, the smaller Airbus A310.
Airbus A300-600 Freighter [4] A30B: AB4: Airbus A300B2, A300B4 and A300C4: A310: 312: ... Airbus A380-800: A3ST: ABB: Airbus A300-600ST "Super Transporter" / "Beluga ...
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A300B4-622R, registered as B-1816, manufacturer serial number 580. It was manufactured by Airbus Industrie on 29 January 1991 and was delivered to China Airlines on 2 February. It had logged 8572 hours and 12 minutes of airframe hours with 3910 takeoff and landing cycles.
The accident aircraft, registration N14053, [6] was an Airbus A300 B4-605R delivered new to American Airlines on 12 July 1988. The aircraft's first flight was on 9 December 1987, and it was the first "R" model A300-600 built. On the day of the accident, it was in a two-class seating configuration with space for 251 passengers, and all seats ...
American Airlines Flight No. 587, an Airbus A300, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 265 people. It was bound for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. The plane crashed in the Belle Harbor ...
Largest A300 operator Finnair: 2 Galaxy Airlines: 2 Ceased operations in 2008 Garuda Indonesia: 9 13 Georgian Star International 3 Ceased operations in 2015 Geo Fly Airways 1 Global Air Transport 1 Leased from Air Stork Global Jet UAE 2 GrandAir 5 Hapag-Lloyd Flug: 9 1 A300-600 leased from Lufthansa: Iberia: 9 Indian Airlines: 10 4 Iran Air: 8 ...
The Ville de Bordeaux is a ship carrier which was designed to transport the elements of the Airbus A380, but now transports parts for the Airbus A320 between Europe and the USA. The ship has been retrofitted with Seawing's and eSAILs, new technologies aiming to cut the carbon emissions of ships. [3] [4] Ville de Bordeaux 2021 at Airbus in Hamburg