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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.
Longer and bigger than the ST, the Beluga XL is capable of carrying both wings, rather than just one, of the Airbus A350, the company’s latest long-haul aircraft that rivals the Boeing 787 and 777.
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. [19]
The Airbus BelugaXL (A330-743L) is a large transport aircraft based on the Airbus A330-200F built by Airbus to replace the original Airbus BelugaST (Super Transporter) to transport very large aircraft components, such as wings. [3] The aircraft made its first flight on 19 July 2018, [1] and received its type certification on 13 November 2019. [3]
Airbus said the move to rent out spare capacity on its existing Beluga ST and new Beluga XL transporters would lead to the creation of a commercial-cargo airline subsidiary from 2023.
An aircraft type designator is a two-, ... Airbus A300-600 Freighter [4] ... Airbus A300-600ST "Super Transporter" / "Beluga" A400: Airbus A400M Atlas:
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
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 ...