This Boeing 747400 Freighter of Aerotrans Cargo used the entire 3000m runway at Düsseldorf a few weeks ago. It arrived fully loaded from China via Astana with important medical supplies and left Düsseldorf empty a few hours later. The shown B747 is a former Centurion Air Cargo aircraft and visited DUS twice in 2021. Aerotrans Cargo recently announced they will open a dutch subsidary, operating two B747400F with homebase Amsterdam Schiphol. Can` t wait to see them arrive on the famous Polderbaan at AMS.


Cargo planes are quite rare at Düsseldorf cause the airport doesn` t have lots of warehouses to store the freight transported by these B747 Freighters. That` s why they usually chose Frankfurt and Liege instead. DUS is more focused on tourism and passengar planes which is the reason why there is not that much going on right now at my homeport.


I also included more encounters with Aero Trans Cargo in the last weeks so basicly this is a Aerotrans Cargo compilation. All of the shown B747`s are Boeing 747400`s. The Boeing 747400 is a widebody airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, an advanced variant of the initial Boeing 747. The "Advanced Series 300" was announced at the September 1984 Farnborough Airshow, targeting a 10% cost reduction with more efficient engines and 1,000 nmi (1,850 km) more range. Northwest Airlines (NWA) became the first customer with an order for 10 aircraft on October 22, 1985. The first 747400 was rolled out on January 26, 1988, and made its maiden flight on April 29, 1988. Type certification was received on January 9, 1989, and it entered service with NWA on February 9, 1989.

It retains the 747 airframe, including the 747300 stretched upper deck, with 6 ft (1.8 m) winglets. The 747400 offers a choice of improved turbofans: the Pratt & Whitney PW4000, General Electric CF680C2 or RollsRoyce RB211524G/H. Its twocrew glass cockpit dispenses with the need for a flight engineer. It typically accommodates 416 passengers in a threeclass layout over a 7,285 nmi (13,490) km range with its 875,000 lb (397 t) MTOW.

The first 400M combi was rolled out in June 1989. The 400D Domestic for the Japanese market, without winglets, entered service on October 22, 1991. The 400F cargo variant, without the stretched upper deck, was first delivered in May 1993. With an increased MTOW of 910,000 lb (410 t), the extended range version entered service in October 2002 as the 400ERF freighter and the 400ER passenger version the following month. The Dreamlifter is an outsize cargo conversion designed to move Dreamliner components. Some have been adapted as transports of heads of state or for specific uses like the YAL1 laser testbed or the Cosmic Girl air launcher.



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