ATSG signs contracts for three Boeing 767-300s from Quantas

Air Transport Services Group released that its Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM) subsidiary has committed to purchase three Boeing 767-300-series extended-range aircraft from Qantas Airways and anticipates to take delivery in the third quarter. All three are Boeing 767-338ER aircraft, equipped with General Electric CF6-80C2-B6 engines. When converted into standard freighters, they are expected to have a range of approximately 3,255 nautical miles, and a maximum payload of approximately 120,000 pounds. ATSG said that it will soon complete arrangements for modification of the three aircraft into full freighters, with a goal of deploying the first of the 767-300s in the first half of 2011 on a leased or ACMI basis.