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Airbus BelugaXL forced to make emergency landing in Amsterdam 

Aerotime

Air traffic controllers then vectored the aircraft towards Schiphol where the aircraft landed on runway 18C at 15:14 local time. The aircraft was designed and built by Airbus to transport outsized cargo such as fuselage sections and wings between manufacturing plants across Europe and its final assembly plans in Toulouse and Hamburg.

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Voices from Combat: The Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Becomes a Bomber

Vintage Aviation News

” As part of VP-13, DeLorenzos next two years were a mix of patrol missions and frequent long-range cargo and VIP passenger flights no other Navy aircraft could match the combination of its 2,370-mile range, 140mph cruising speed (15mph faster than the PBY Catalina) and passenger comfort. But lets not forget its big advantage!

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Canadian Airline Nolinor Purchases Production Slots for Natilus KONA Cargo Aircraft

World Airline News

Natilus’s regional cargo aircraft, KONA, is capable of navigating extreme weather conditions and landing on short, gravel runways in the Arctic North. Nolinor is the world’s largest operator of the B737-200 aircraft, which are equipped to land on dirt, gravel, or ice runways.

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Next-gen ‘Kona’ cargo plane set to join Nolinor’s fleet

Aviation Bussiness News

In a bold move that could reshape regional air cargo, Canadian charter airline Nolinor Aviation has secured production slots for multiple Kona aircraft, a cutting-edge blended-wing-body freighter developed by Natilus, a San Diego-based aerospace innovator. Powered by an advanced turboprop configuration, the Kona boasts a 3.8-metric-tonne

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Nolinor announces a new sub-base opening in Edmonton

World Airline News

Distinctively, the Boeing 737-200 is the only model certified by Boeing for gravel runway operations, offering unmatched flexibility in payload capacity and featuring an expanded cargo door to accommodate a broad spectrum of cargo sizes.

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Innovations in the vertical-lift world

Professional Pilot

For VIP and executive transport, parapublic, EMS, SAR, and energy services, it will carry 9 pax, up to 6000-lb payload, 1000 nm at 270 kt cruise. The CarryAll V200CG cargo version received its TC in March 2024. It can carry up to 882 lb of payload. Payload is 900 lb. AutoFlight has 200 orders in hand.

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Pitching In On The Airlift: A First Timer’s Account

AV Web

The line of volunteers queued up at my cargo door and a lady reached in, grabbing the first box, and handing it to the volunteer behind her. Several critics have posted that bigger airplanes were the proper tool for an airlift, and if these communities had runways to support the quad-jet cargo birds, that’d be all well and good.