100th FedEx Airbus Freighter ready for conversion at EADS EFW
Dresden, 23 May 2005
By the end of last week the 100th FedEx (Federal Express Inc.) Airbus entered the Dresden-based EADS EFW conversion facility. The 19 year old aircraft is the Airbus A310-300 prototype and was formerly owned by AIR NIUGINI before it was purchased by leasing company GATX CAPITAL CORPORATION. End of 2004 the airframe MSN 378 was sold to FedEx. It touched down in Dresden for a conversion from passenger to freighter aircraft, a weight upgrade and cockpit standardisation. This process will take about four months.
The EADS EFW relationship with the US-based express carrier started in the early nineties. FedEx operates 36 Airbus A300-600F production freighter aircraft and 64 converted freighters including the one currently under conversion (49 A310-200, 8 A300-600 and 7 A310-300).
Within EADS, EFW (Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH) is the centre of competence for the conversion of Airbus passenger aircraft into freighters (A300 & A310 wide body aircraft) and the associated maintenance. EFW sources the original components for the standard Airbus freighter variants directly and exclusively from Airbus (OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer).
Up to 14 midlife Airbus passenger aircraft touch down each year at EADS EFW to receive a conversion into a freighter. These aircraft carry a payload of between 38 to 50 tonnes. As of today EADS converted 112 Airbus aircraft.
For further information please contact:
| Sabine Klie | EADS EFW |
Tel.: +49 351 8839 2488 Fax: +49 351 8839 2349 www.efw.eads.net mailto: Sabine.Klie@efw.eads.net |
