For the former UK Cargo Airline see: Air Foyle HeavyLift
Heavylift Cargo Airlines Pty Ltd is a cargo airline headquartered in Sydney, Australia. It started operations in 2004 and operates scheduled and charter cargo services. Its main base is Brisbane Airport.[2] HeavyLift took over passenger airline OzJet in 2008.[3] Heavy Lift sold Ozjet, and its passenger aircraft, to Air Australia in 2009. Heavy Lift is not affected by the February 2012 shutdown and financial difficulties of Air Australia or Strategy Airlines. It is a coincidence that heavyjet's website is not currently operational.
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Heavylift operates both scheduled and charter cargo services between Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.[4] In the future it has plans to expand its operations further into the Pacific and to Vanuatu.[2]
Currently, Heavylift Cargo operates an international freight service to Honiara, in the Solomon Islands. With 10 Scheduled flights per week operating from Brisbane to Honiara and Port Moresby.
Heavylift's Belfast is registered in the Philippines as RP-C8020.
One of Heavylift's Boeing 727-100Fs waiting for cargo.
As of November 2010 the Heavylift Cargo Airlines fleet consists of:[2][5][6]
HeavyLift offers the specialist HeliLift service for helicopter transport. Heavylift has the capacity to lift several helicopters at a time in the Shorts SC.5 Belfast, all but the largest without rotor head disassembly. Because the Belfast's aft area is more than 4m tall, many helicopters can be transported without the need for rotor head removal. The Belfast lifted four large Iroquois helicopters two at a time from Honiara in the Solomons to RAAF Amberley outside Brisbane, returning the Australian Army Bell UH-1Hs that were detached to the island for the recent policing mission. Such a mission would normally be carried out by a Hercules. The Belfast demonstrated its distinct economical advantage over the Hercules which can only carry one Iroquois at a time compared to the two in the Belfast. It has also lifted two Blackhawks to East Timor in a single sortie and is the only aircraft in the region with this capability.During 2006 work was also underway at Bournemouth Airport to refurbish another ex-HeavyLift aircraft, the unique Conroy CL-44-0; however it has been reported on various aviation internet message boards that this aircraft will not be delivered. (Although just recently engineers have started work on the CL-44 and reinstalling engines) A feature of the airline is that most of its aircraft are not registered in Australia, but in the Philippines, main base is Brisbane.
Heavylift recently claimed ownership of a Soviet era Ilyushin Il-76TD from a former operator. The aircraft is currently being fitted and redesigned and is expected to enter service in early 2011 or late 2010.
In may 2008 Heavylift bought passenger airline Ozjet Airlines giving it access to an Australia operating certificate.[1] Ozjet discontinued passenger operations in May 2009.
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