CAM takes redelivery of first 767BDSF for UPS

[caption id="attachment_412405" align="alignright" width="401"] One of just three freighter-converted 767-300BCFs in the UPS fleet.[/caption] Cargo Aircraft Management ( CAM ), the leasing subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group ( ATSG ), has taken redelivery of another 767-300BDSF (28041, ex-Air Italy) [ FAT 005112 ]. But what’s different about this aircraft is that, instead of being destined for Amazon like most of CAM’s recent redeliveries , it will be placed with Atlanta-based integrator UPS [FAT 005113]. This frame is the first of four 767-300BDSFs CAM will be dry-leasing to UPS this year, under an agreement ATSG signed with UPS earlier this year . When it announced its second-quarter earnings, ATSG confirmed that the first 767 would be placed with UPS in September and that it was on track to deliver all four by the end of the year. At first glance, freighter-converted 767Fs seem like an odd choice for the integrator. Of UPS’ current fleet of sixty-four 767-300Fs, just three are BCFs and the other sixty-one are production freighters. The three converted freighters all joined the fleet in 2018, and were converted from Japan Airlines passenger feedstock. In fact, excluding the two new 767s it received in June and July 2019, the last time UPS took delivery of a production 767F was in September 2013. According to Boeing ’s orders and deliveries data, UPS currently has eleven more production 767-300Fs on order, but it is likely that the integrator needed the extra capacity within a year – a shorter timeframe than Boeing would have been able to meet with new deliveries. Freighter-converted 767Fs have much quicker turnaround times. Unit 28041 was first delivered in passenger configuration to Britannia Airways in May 1996. After being withdrawn from service with Air Italy at the beginning of this year, it was inducted for conversion in March by Israel Aerospace Industries ( IAI ) in Tel Aviv (TLV). After making a test flight on Aug. 27, unit 28041 was ferried from TLV to Shannon (SNN) today and should be making its way across the Atlantic shortly. As for the three remaining converted 767-300s that will be painted in UPS colors, Cargo Facts believes the candidates are as follows: 28039 (ex-Air Italy), inducted for conversion in TLV in April 2019; 29228 (ex-LATAM), inducted for conversion in TLV in July 2019; and 29229 (ex-LATAM), inducted for conversion in TLV earlier this month.

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