It is the gargantuan aircraft that causes delight among plane spotters and is a rare sight indeed - the Beluga XL plane. Known as the Beluga because of its whale-like resemblance, the aircraft ...

The origins of the Airbus Beluga . Airbus has long grappled with the problem of needing to transport components around due to ...

Airbus has suspended all flights of the Beluga ST after terminating its cargo business. The Beluga 'Super-Transporters' had ...

Airbus has shut down its new for-hire cargo airline focused on transporting oversize shipments using the odd-shaped Beluga ...

Airbus Beluga Transport has 75 employees. All employees have been informed of the decision and Airbus says it is “committed” to assisting all affected personnel to find alternative roles either within ...

A giant cargo plane was forced to abort landing in North Wales due to the weather. The Beluga XL1 was flying from Hamburg in Germany to Airbus Broughton in Flintshire - with it scheduled to land at ...

First assembled in 2018, the BelugaXL was designed to replace the company’s existing Beluga aircraft. The aircraft is 207 ft long and 197 ft in wingspan for a total of 40,956 square feet.

A giant cargo plane was forced to abort landing in North Wales due to the weather. The Beluga XL1 was flying from Hamburg in Germany to Airbus Broughton in Flintshire - with it scheduled to land ...

But they have been phased out in recent years by the arrival of the Beluga XL fleet. This aircraft made its maiden flight on 19 July 2018 and entered service with Airbus Transport on 9 January 2020.

The aerospace manufacturer Airbus has announced the suspension of its third-party air transport operations carried out with its special BelugaST aircraft, less than a year after they began.