Airbus has secured an air operator’s certificate for the new carrier established to conduct outsize freight transport using the airframer’s withdrawn A300-600ST Beluga fleet. The manufacturer unveiled ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Still, as Airbus’ first oversize cargo plane the Beluga provides a crucial function—and can be seen from miles away. Airbus is a truly pan-European corporation, and ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Airbus is a truly pan-European corporation, and as such has production facilities in Spain, France, Germany, the United Kingdom—not to mention the United States, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN – Jan. 19, 2015) — It’s the white whale ...

June 27, 2005 The Airbus Beluga flew into Paris earlier this month for the Paris airshow, offering one of the most remarkable sites in aviation. The Beluga (also known as the A300-600ST Super ...

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Airbus has tentatively identified an A330-200 derivative as the most promising long-term candidate to replace its five A300-600ST Beluga oversize transports. The airframer has already embarked on a ...

BLAGNAC, France – The airplane is one that turns heads. Aviation enthusiasts instinctively know it is the "Beluga," a nickname stemming from the aircraft's uncanny resemblance to the whale of the same ...

Satellites watched as an absolutely massive Airbus Beluga aircraft unloaded a satellite at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida ahead of a planned SpaceX launch. The Airbus Beluga ST is one of ...

European planemaker Airbus is based in Toulouse, France, but produces planes in the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, and China. To transport the wings and fuselages of half-built planes from one ...

Airbus' newest airplane that regular passengers won't be able to fly on is now flying full-time in Europe. The BelugaXL cargo plane just entered operational service and is now transporting Airbus ...

Airbus completed the maiden flight of its massive new BelugaXL transport aircraft on Thursday, debuting the plane in front of a crowd of more than 10,000 near the company’s headquarters in Toulouse, ...