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A team of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ experts moved an urgent shipment of oil production equipment from Scotland to Turkey recently. The 35-ton load was flown one of its IL-76TD- aircraft from in Prestwick to Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen airport. The process took just three days from the initial customer enquiry to delivery.
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines has delivered 45 tons of humanitarian supplies from Zurich to Erbil International Airport for victims of the civil unrest in Iraq. The airline’s IL-76TD-90VD freighter carried 905 tents, 6,000 blankets and mattresses, and 600 kitchen sets for refugee camps in the region. The flight was contracted by Air ...
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A Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ An-124-100 freighter transported a Sukhoi Superjet 100 fuselag, wings and tail section from Komsomolsk-na-Amure in Khabarovsk Krai to Zhukovsky, southeast of Moscow. The new Superjet 100 is undergoing service life tests.
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AirBridgeCargo Airlines has taken delivery of its sixth new 747-8 freighter. With this addition AirBridgeCargo - part of Volga-Dnepr Group and Russia’s largest cargo airline - has a fleet consisting of 13 Boeing 747s, including six Boeing 747-8 Freighters, four Boeing 747-400ERFs (Extended Range Freighters) and three Boeing 747-400 Freighters.
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Volga-Dnepr has moved a 15-metre, 24-ton ‘Cigarette Marauder’ power boat from Doha to Nice on board one of its IL-76 freighter flights. The boat (the name is presumably a reference to its shape and not a suggestion that it will be used for trans-med smuggling operations) needed a special loading ...
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A Volga-Dnepr Airlines An-124-100 ‘Ruslan’ freighter aircraft has delivered the Luch-5V and KazSat-3 telecommunications satellites from Krasnoyarsk in Russia to Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. The satellites, weighing a combined 21 tons, were secured inside a special shipping container. The Luch-5V is the third of four satellites designed to enhance information reception ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group's AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has taken delivery of its fifth new 747-8 freighter. The new aircraft will be used on ABC’s routes between Europe, Asia and the US via Moscow.
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One of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ IL-76 freighters recently carried an 18-metre bus from Turin to Astana, Kazakhstan.
Iveco Italy urgently needed to deliver the bus to the capital of Kazakhstan for a special promotion on 25 November and the flight, was organised by Chapman-Freeborn Airchartering Italy was confirmed the following day.
There were ...
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A Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ An-124-100 ‘Ruslan’ freighter landed in the Russian city of Salekhard for the first time in late November, delivering a 26-tonne turbine for the local power plant.
The airline and its customer UTair Cargo JSC had to obtain special permission to land at Salekhard and the airport needed to ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group says that over 200 professional and amateur aviation photographers from around the world have submitted images of its An-124-100 Ruslan, IL-76TD-90VD and Boeing 747 freighter in its Third International Photo Contest.
The website created to host the competition has attracted 10,000 visitors from 92 countries, who were invited to ...
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