DHL to add three 767Fs with IAI conversion order

[caption id="attachment_414102" align="alignright" width="460"] DHL also took redelivery last year of a 767-300BDSF that had been converted by IAI in Mexico. (Photo: IAI)[/caption] DHL Express will grow its owned fleet with three more 767-300Fs, under a new conversion deal with Israel Aerospace Industries ( IAI ), and also has the option to convert another 767 with IAI [FATs 005471-005473]. IAI told Cargo Facts the aircraft will be converted at the Mexicana MRO Services facility in Mexico City (MEX), and expects the first frame to enter conversion in the third quarter. DHL confirmed to Cargo Facts the three aircraft are units 33087, 33086 and 33081 (all ex-American Airlines), and have been reserved under a forward purchase contract with American Airlines. Deliveries from American to DHL will occur closer to the conversion induction dates of July, November and February 2021, while entry into service is anticipated for around six months after induction, taking into account paint and post-redelivery maintenance. While DHL said a decision hadn’t been reached yet as to which division the 767s will be flying with, we note the express integrator at the end of 2019 took redelivery of a 767-300BDSF (27686, ex-Royal Air Maroc), which it handed over to U.S.-based Kalitta Air to be operated on a CMI basis. That aircraft was also converted by IAI at the Mexicana MRO facility. Kalitta flies another 767-300BDSF (28040) and a 767-300BCF (27392) on a CMI basis for the German express integrator, as well as six other 767-300BDSFs on an ACMI basis. But unit 27686 wasn’t the only 767-300F to join the DHL fleet last year. In October, the company also took redelivery of a 767-300BCF (28042, ex-Air Italy), converted by Boeing in Singapore. That aircraft was then sent to Panama to be operated by DHL Aero Expreso . DHL previously told Cargo Facts it may decide to base more 767-300Fs at its hub in Panama. The three American 767-300s were all in active passenger service until March, when the airline said it would remove all sixteen remaining 767s from its fleet and accelerate their retirement. DHL clearly pounced on the opportunity to pick up the aircraft at attractive prices. Most of the other American 767s are destined to serve as conversion feedstock for Cargo Aircraft Management ( CAM ), the leasing arm of Air Transport Services Group ( ATSG ). As for DHL Express, which also has six 767-200BDSFs with its Bahrain-based subsidiary, three 767-300Fs with U.K.-based DHL Air, one 767-300F with Australia-based Tasman Cargo Airlines, as well as other 767s in service with CMI operators, the integrator is also set to add to its owned freighter fleet four more 777Fs and at least one or two more EFW-converted A330-300Fs this year.

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