AEI converts MD-83s for Mexican carrier

• Jeff Lee
• February 7, 2020
• Aircraft, Conversions, Editorial, Equipment, Narrowbody Conversions, News

Aeronautical Engineers Inc. (AEI) will convert two additional MD-83s for Mexico-based Aeronaves TSM, after which the carrier’s fleet will include fourteen freighter-converted MD-83SFs.   The first aircraft (49945, ex-Ameristar) will be inducted for conversion at the Commercial Jet facility in Miami (MIA) in March, while touch labor on the second aircraft will begin in November this year at the same facility.   […]

AEI redelivers first conversion of 4Q, an MD-83SF to TSM

• Charles Kauffman
• October 2, 2019
• Aircraft, Conversions, Equipment, Narrowbody Conversions, News

On Tuesday, AEI redelivered an MD-83SF (53122) to Mexico-based Aeronaves TSM [FAT 005157]. The aircraft was the first freighter-converted aircraft to be redelivered in 4Q19. 53122 completed conversion at Commercial Jet’s Miami facility on Sept. 25, and upon joining TSM’s fleet, becomes the carrier’s eleventh freighter-converted MD-80F. TSM has at least one more MD-83 that […]

Aeronaves TSM grows CRJ freighter fleet to five

• Jeff Lee
• September 10, 2019
• Aircraft, Carriers, Conversions, Freighter Aircraft Transactions, Narrowbody Conversions, Strategy

Aeronaves TSM has taken redelivery of a CRJ200 SF (7787, ex-South African Express) from Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) [FAT 005130]. This is the fifth CRJ200 SF AEI has redelivered to the Mexican cargo carrier. Unit 7787 was ferried from Dothan, Alabama (DHN), where it was converted at the Commercial Jet facility, to Aeronaves TSM’s base […]

CRJ conversions not affected by Bombardier’s sale of program

• Jeff Lee
• August 16, 2019
• Aircraft, All Posts, Conversions, Features, Narrowbody Conversions, Strategy

The sale of Bombardier’s CRJ program and its subsequent termination is not expected to have any material effect on Aeronautical Engineers, Inc.’s (AEI) own CRJ passenger-to-freighter conversion program, the conversion house told Cargo Facts. Bombardier announced in June that it was selling off the CRJ program to Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with the remaining backlog […]

Widebody freighter transactions accelerate during first half of May

• Caryn Livingston and Charles Kauffman
• May 27, 2019
• Freighter Aircraft Transactions

During the first fifteen days of May 2019, Cargo Facts recorded a total of fifteen freighter aircraft transactions, up three transactions month-over-month from April. In a major shift from last month, transactions involving widebody freighters represented 80% of the transactions during this period (twelve units) compared to just five units last month. Below, we include […]

Freighter aircraft transactions through mid-February

• Caryn Livingston
• February 18, 2019
• Freighter Aircraft Transactions, News

Every week in Cargo Facts Update, we include a list of recent freighter aircraft transactions, and then a comprehensive summary in the monthly issue of Cargo Facts. Each reference to a freighter aircraft transaction (FAT) in our publications contains a unique FAT code linked to the FAT database on the CargoFacts.com website. This database is available to […]

Freighter aircraft transactions through December

• Caryn Livingston
• December 28, 2018
• Freighter Aircraft Transactions

Every week in Cargo Facts Update, we include a list of recent freighter aircraft transactions, and then a comprehensive summary in the monthly issue of Cargo Facts. Each reference to a freighter aircraft transaction (FAT) in our publications contains a unique FAT code linked to the FAT database on the CargoFacts.com website. This database is […]

Freighter aircraft transactions through the end of October

• Caryn Livingston
• November 5, 2018
• Aircraft, Freighter Aircraft Transactions, News

Every week in Cargo Facts Update, we include a list of recent freighter aircraft transactions, and then a comprehensive summary in the monthly issue of Cargo Facts. Each reference to a freighter aircraft transaction (FAT) in our publications contains a unique FAT code linked to the FAT database on the CargoFacts.com website. This database is […]