Southeast Asia’s 1st production 767-300F back in US

Southeast Asia’s only production 767-300 freighter has returned to the United States after about a year preparing to enter service with Malaysian freighter operator Raya Airways. The 1999-vintage unit 29881 departed Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (SZB) for Guam (GUM) on Oct. 12 before continuing to Kapolei, Hawaii (JRF), on Oct. 13. Later that day, the CF6-powered aircraft departed JRF for ATSG’s based in Wilmington, Ohio (ILN). [caption id="attachment_57299893" align="aligncenter" width="904"] Unit 29881 first arrived in Malaysia in October 2025. (Courtesy/Raya Airways)[/caption] It was ferried to Tampa (TPA), where ATSG operates its Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services MRO facility, on Oct. 23 and was still there as of publication, flight-tracking data show. Unit 29881 was registered in the United States on Oct. 1 to one Bank of Utah Trustee, according to the FAA’s aircraft registry. The aircraft is still owned by CAM and is undergoing maintenance, a source with knowledge of the matter confirmed to Cargo Facts . Unit 29881 history While Raya has leased five 767-200BDSFs from ATSG subsidiary CAM over the past decade and is still the only operator of that type in Malaysia, it would have also been the only one to operate the production 767-300F in the country as well as Southeast Asia, Jeff Lee, analyst at Cargo Facts Consulting, told Cargo Facts . The Kuala Lumpur-based freighter operator added the 1999-vintage unit 29881 to its fleet on lease from CAM in October last year. After about six months of inactivity, unit 29881 was activated twice in May. While the aircraft did not fly in either case, both actions were logged under a Malaysian registration, flight-tracking data from Flightradar24 show. Raya did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication. There aren’t many factory 767 freighters in the Asia-Pacific region, Lee said. “ANA has four; Tasman Cargo Airlines has three; and AirZeta has one. The rest in the region are all conversions, with SF Airlines being the largest operator,” he added. “More recently, we’ve seen more growth with A330P2Fs in Asia — predominantly in China — although there have still been a healthy number of converted 767 additions over the past few years, almost all for Central Asian carriers.” Raya network Raya, whose fleet includes three converted A321-200Fs and four active 767-200BDSFs , on Nov. 7 launched a weekly 767-200 freighter route connecting Guangzhou (CAN) with Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (BKI), and Kuala Lumpur (KUL). The route is Raya’s first to CAN, and will carry e-commerce, the carrier said in a Nov. 11 LinkedIn post. It was first flown by the 1983-vintage unit 22787. Southern China —specifically the Pearl River Delta region in which CAN is located — sees especially high volumes of e-commerce exports, Johan Sandahl, senior vice president for the Asia-Pacific region at ground handler Air Menzies International, previously told Cargo Facts . Meanwhile, Raya in August launched a dedicated freighter service connecting Penang International Airport (PEN) and Male-Velana International Airport (MLE), becoming one of the first carriers to operate a dedicated jet freighter service to the archipelago. Cargo Facts LATAM 2027, the essential event for stakeholders in Latin America, will take place Feb. 10-12 at the Marquis Reforma in Mexico City. Learn more and register by Jan. 8 to take advantage of early-bird pricing.

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