We fly two aircraft families and only two — the Boeing 747-400 Freighter and the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Freighter. Both share the GE CF6-80C2 powerplant, simplifying maintenance, training, and parts pooling across 19 active widebodies.
Two airframes.
One powerplant family.
No compromises.
A small fleet flown well outperforms a large one flown carelessly. By restricting our certificate to two type ratings — both burning the same engine — we keep training tight, parts deep, and crews interchangeable.
The heavy diagonal.
Our flagship. The 747-400F's hinged nose accepts oversized cargo no other commercial freighter will take. Four GE CF6-80C2 engines drive a 90 – 110 tonne payload across the world's longest commercial diagonals — Asia to the Americas, Europe to the Gulf, and back.
Spec block compiled from the WGA flight ops manual. Payload ranges reflect operational envelope across density and routing.
The precision trijet.
The trijet specialist. Three GE CF6-80C2 engines, 60 – 90 tonnes of payload, and an envelope built for routes the 400F is too big for and a narrowbody too small for. The MD-11F flies the asymmetric leg — the awkward triangle.
Three engines is a feature, not a relic. Power redundancy on long over-water legs. Performance margins out of hot-and-high airfields. The MD-11F earns its place by going places others won't.
Both type ratings on our certificate burn the same engine — the General Electric CF6-80C2. That's deliberate. One pool of overhaul cores, one set of borescope kits, one training spine. We win twice on simplicity.
GE CF6-80C2, used on both 747-400F and MD-11F
In-house overhaul at Blytheville, Arkansas
One inventory feeds 19 tails, 7 engines per 747, 3 per MD-11
Engineering and ground teams cross-rated on a single powerplant
When operations sales recommends an aircraft for a routing, this is the working comparison. Out-of-gauge or 100+ tonnes? 747. Asymmetric routing or hot-and-high field? MD-11.
Tell us the routing and the cargo. We'll select the airframe, build the flight plan, and quote you a number you can stand behind.
