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Airbus Beluga Transport (Toulouse Blagnac) aims to complete its certification drive in October 2023 and launch operations using five A300-600ST Belugas under its own AOC, managing director Benoit Lemonnier said during the Air Cargo Conference in Frankfurt.

As reported by the Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung, the fully-owned Airbus SE subsidiary will take over all five aircraft from sister carrier Airbus Transport International (4Y, Toulouse Blagnac) and proffer them to third-party customers. The European holding aims to utilise the type's unique outsized cargo capabilities to attract customers from the military, industrial, and resource sectors. Lemonnier pointed out that with the drop in the number of available An-124 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and sanctions imposed on the type's operator, Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VI, Ulyanovsk Vostochny), there was a lot of demand for such aircraft.

Due to its specific nose-loading design, the Belugas require the use of dedicated loading platforms. Lemonnier said Airbus has currently positioned six such platforms at strategically important airports - Marseilles, Toulouse Blagnac, and...

Kyiv to confiscate Volga-Dnepr Airlines' engines