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Airbus Industrie’s fourth A300-600ST ‘Super Transporter’ aircraft spends it’s first full night on the tarmac at Birmingham Airport, having diverted in with BGA164D from Madrid’s Base Aérea de Getafe in Spain the previous day, with a technical fault.
The second-newest example of the instantly-recognizable outsize cargo transporter that Airbus operates in the present day, Beluga ‘No.4′ F-GSTD first flew in June 1998 – and like all others in-fleet, is predominantly employed by Airbus to carry large aircraft sections and components between factories for final assembly at several plants across Europe.
Flying today alongside a growing number of Airbus’ new, larger A330-based Beluga XL transporters set to replace them, the original Beluga fleet is slowly being withdrawn as the worldwide demand for Airbus aircraft production increases.
Nikon D850, AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8E FL ED VR
