Ethiopian Airlines’ MRO division began the passenger-to-freighter conversion of the airline’s first Boeing 767-300ER cargo aircraft.
The work, carried out at the Addis Ababa facility in collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), makes it the first maintenance center on the African continent authorized to work on the model. This line joins IAI’s already operational conversion facilities in Tel Aviv and Mexico City.
Ethiopian MRO celebrates a milestone on B767 passenger to cargo conversion as the first conversion site in Africa in collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). pic.twitter.com/fAEQefli61
— Ethiopian Airlines (@flyethiopian) April 28, 2022
As reported by our media partner AEROIN, the first conversion will be performed on the 18-year-old aircraft with serial number 33768. It is expected to be ready in two months.
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It will be followed by two other jets of the same model, with serial numbers 33767 and 33769 and an average age of 17 years. The aircraft will be used by the Ethiopian carrier to expand its cargo capacity.
Icelandair acquires 767 to be converted by ST Engineering
Icelandair Cargo, the Icelandic airline’s cargo division, will take delivery of a Boeing 767 freighter, converted by ST Engineering. The aircraft, which will join the fleet in the northern autumn, arrived in Singapore on April 29. There it will undergo conversion work during the summer.
This beautiful 767 aircraft, joining our fleet in the fall, has arrived in Singapore, where it will go through a Cargo conversion this summer. We look forward to welcoming her to our fleet as TF-ISH in a few months ! pic.twitter.com/hvt8bka77S
— Icelandair Cargo (@IcelandairCargo) May 3, 2022
The aircraft, a Boeing 767-300 owned by AerCap, is 23.3 years old and serial number 28883. It began flying in January 1999 and in its long life operated, among others, for Britannia Airways and TUI Airways.
