Mammoth 777-200LR undergoing conversion at STS Manchester. Photo: Mammoth Freighters
Mammoth Freighters has inducted its first 777-200LR passenger to freighter (P2F) conversion at the STS Aviation Services facility in Manchester, UK.
STS is now working to convert the 777-200LR aircraft (MSN 32222) at the Manchester facility, which Mammoth said is in a convenient location that can easily serve greater Europe and will provide a central product support base for Mammoth customers in Europe.
“STS in Manchester has a highly skilled and available workforce in the UK,” stated Brian McCarthy, Mammoth’s vice president of marketing and sales. “Furthermore, STS offers substantial hangar facilities and services which makes them a perfect provider for a double production line of Mammoth 777-200LRMF and 777-300ERMF conversions.”
Last week, Mammoth announced that it had received the first delivery of the specialised 777-200LRMF Collins Aerospace cargo loading system.
Fort Worth, Texas-based Mammoth Freighters was founded in 2020 to design, develop, convert, and support the development of passenger to freighter conversions. The launch type is the Boeing 777 (both the 200 LR and 300 ER variants).
As a licensee for the Boeing 777, Mammoth is developing a global production and conversion site network accommodating seven production lines that will include five productionlines at Aspire MRO in Fort Worth, Texas and two at STS Aviation Services UK Limited in Manchester, UK, with additional conversion capacity planned at other sites in Asia Pacific.
The conversion company said it currently has two 777 aircraft in advanced stages of freighter conversion at Aspire MRO.
Mammoth expects the installation of the first cargo loading system will be completed in September, and then the programme will progress to the final stages of the certification process.
The 777P2F is increasing in numbers. There are currently three 777-300ER conversion programmes in place with IAI, KMC and Mammoth, in addition to the 777-200LR programme in development with Mammoth.
In a recent IBA webinar that focused on the freighter conversions market, IBA analyst Jonathan McDonald said: “IAI and Mammoth are further ahead and more likely to launch sooner.
“The -200LR is probably going to be more range driven because (it has) a much smaller fuselage…whereas the -300ER programme will probably be more volume driven.”
He noted that there are less -200LRs to convert than the -300ER – of which there are nearly 800 PAX.
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