Heavy Lift International

[kingfisher]

Hi: Does anyone know who Heavy Lift International is ie. bases, equipment, pay etc. Apparently they are going to be in Miami at the Aeroservices career fair in January. Thank you

 

[hawkerjet]

Heavylift is an all cargo company that specialises in oversize cargo. the company is based in australia but has divisions in russia and the middle east. the russian arm uses a large antonov jet ( i forget the nomenclature, but it is the 4 engine jet not the 6 engine giant) and the arabian division uses disel 8's. the headquarter's in brisbane, i believe, has 727's and a shorts belfast.
sounds like they may be gearing up to put a couple of disel 8's in the US. This company has been around for decades originally started in europe .

 

[Kikuchiyo]

the russian arm uses a large antonov jet ( i forget the nomenclature, but it is the 4 engine jet not the 6 engine giant)

The AN-124. Sometimes they fly contract airlift for the USAF.

 

[Belfast Pilot]

Kingfisher, Hi

Can you tell me if HLA International actually attended the Miami Fair in January?

As the ex-CP of HeavyLift Cargo Airlines I can let you have a bit of the history......we started in 1979 as TAC HeavyLift (that was the old Transmeridian Air Cargo in cahoots with some offshore companies). We then bacame HLA in late 79/early80 when British Cargo Airlines went bust. (TAC flew CL44's and was by then part of British Cargo Airlines).

We were then bought out by Cunard, (yes the Shipping Company!), and finally by Kvaerna (the Scandinavian Heavy Engineering and Shipping Company). Finally a management by-out by H&P and an American-Iranian in 2000...we then lasted exactly 2 years!

We were in bed with Volga-Dniepr who flew the An 124 using the HLA call-sign
from 1991-2000. At that time HLA operated 3 or 4 Belfasts, several Herky-Birds, a 707, the CL44 Guppy and eventually 4 A300B4's.

Since then HLA OZ has taken the name also I believe the above mentioned American-Iranian in the Middle East. They are not connected.

 

[jercdevil]

Read somewhere they just orderd 10 C-17's

 

[Belfast Pilot]

Jercdevil,
I just wonder where on Earth they would get the money to buy those? You must be talking $2Billion+ ?

 

[XTW]

Has the US government allowed OK'ed the sale of C17's to a private company?

 

[hawkerjet]

If UPS couldn't pull off the sale of C-17's, I doubt HL can. just my .02