Used Cargo Planes for Sale

Air and spacecraft companies around the globe have designed a range of huge planes to transport huge cargoes, and are working on design for the near term that could allow planes to transport even more. This is a look at some of the largest cargo planes currently in service. Do you know those planes that are flying with a spaceship on their backs?

Well, the Antonov AN-225 Mriya is the tallest of them all. The company held the global load capacity records for the heaviest individual load, 418,834 lbs, as well as the overall load capacity records - 559,577 lbs or 280 tonnes. One of the widest cargo aircraft in the wide range is the Boeing 747.

747-8 Freighter, a cargo variant of the 747-8 Intercontinental is actually a heavy airplane - with a max take-off mass of almost 900,000 pounds. However, the Dreamlifter's body shape allows the airplane to transport particularly large or unfavourably formed objects. Antonov An-124 Condor, made in the Soviet Union, is the biggest airplane of the United States.

On this 2004 photograph, the U.S. Navy loads a Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) into an An-124 Condor being sent to South Korea. Fourty of these planes are still in use, although only a few of them still take over the transportation by plane for the Soviet army. The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is slightly smaller than the Antonov Condor and the biggest airplane routine US army operations.

In 1995 the Airbus Beluga was launched as a replacement for the older Super Guppy. The Airbus needed an airplane that could carry large parts, and the maintenance of the Super Guppy airplanes was not cost-effective. Organisations that used the Super Guppy have substituted it for the Beluga - with the exception of NASA. The NASA likes the Super Guppy.

Globemaster III is the most important cargo horse for the US Army, carrying forces and cargo, conducting airplanes and medevac, and taking off flights around the globe. Their C-130J Super Hercules is the newest in Lockheed Martin's Hercules range, which began in 1954 with the C-130 Hercules. Hercules' various airplanes are the longest continuous production airplanes of all time.

Hercules' fundamental designs have survived a number of proposed heirs. The Kawasaki Heavy Industries C-2 cargo plane is still in the research and test stage. The original plan was to start 2014 in order to substitute the Kawasaki C-1 used by the Japanese Air Force (JASDF).