What aeroplanes are used to haul cargo these days?

I've just watched 'Flight of the Phoenix' where the protagonist operates a large twin-boom Boxcar. I know that during the war and shortly afterwards the Dakota was 'the' plane, but other than that I don't know anything about planes!





What aircraft are currently used in the same role as these old work-horses- by private enterprises as well as large freight corporations? Thanks.What aeroplanes are used to haul cargo these days?
For small on demand charters, the typical aircrafts are


Cessna 310's


Cessna Grand Caravans


Lear 24/25/35's


Da-20 (falcon 20)


Metro-III's


Emb-110 (and a very few Emb-120)


Pilatus PC-12


Dc-9-15/30 series


B-727-100/200


B-737


Dc-8-60/71


If you did not notice, most of these are very old designs, because they can be bought rather cheaply from airlines that want to upgrade to newer aircraft. These are the most commonly used in the Ad-hoc cargo business.


Commerical cargo compaines such as UPS/BAX/FedEx ..etc, use large heavy lift aircraft such as


Dc-10


B-767


B-747


IL-76


Antov-124.


This is becasue they are consolidated loads, meaning more than one shipper's goods are being flown. They are renting space on the aircraft, instead of renting the whole aircraft.





Also the majority of small cargo is actually loaded into commerical passenger aircraft, with Northwest, United, Southwest, American Airlines.What aeroplanes are used to haul cargo these days?
many are used but the most common are old c130's boieng 740-747 fixed-wing aircraft designed or converted for the carriage of goods, rather than passengers Boeing C-17A Globemaster III,The Airbus A400M, C-123 Provider, C-130 Hercules,Aero Spacelines Super Guppy


Airbus A320 (Conversions)


Airbus A300


Airbus A310


Airbus A330


Airbus A380F


Airbus Beluga


Antonov An-225 Mriya (the largest and heaviest aircraft in the world)


Antonov Antonov An-124 Ruslan


Boeing 727


Boeing 737 (Conversions)


Boeing 757


Boeing 767


Boeing 747 Freighter


Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter


Boeing 777 Freighter


Boeing MD-10


Douglas DC-3


Douglas DC-9


Ilyushin Il-76


Ilyushin Il-96
The large companies like Fedex and UPS favour large jets like the DC10/MD11 and the Boeing 767. For lower capacities the Boeing 757 is proving popular, particularly in Europe. British Airways sold their entire 757 fleet for conversion to freighters, A few not yet delivered though. There are a quite a lot of Boeing 747 freighters in use, Asian users and still buying them for their long haul and high capacity routes.





In out of the way places such as in South America there are still Dakotas in use. Mostly by smaller companies. The Drug runners love them.





Ian M
Most commercial aircraft have derivatives used for cargo carrying, in particular the wide bodied ones. Many military aircraft appear to serve a dual function with the exception of smaller, fighter aircraft.
boeing 747's are probably the workhorses now . the largest is a russian plane called an antonov AN-225


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-鈥?/a>


any commercial aircraft can be passenger or converted to freight .
He are some cargo planes


Boeing c-17a globemaster


Airbus a400m


Boeing 747 400f


Airbus a300b4f


DC10


Ilyushin IL-7ctd i hope this helps
mostly old aircrafts are used


main ones are 747 F, A 300/310, MD 10 and 11s, 737 classiques





but even newer aircrafts like 767 and 777 are used
no enthusiast but search '; super guppy russian freight plane '; . it is big seen it once .
Biggest cargo hauler........Antonov 225
Curtiss C-46s in Alaska.





Convair 580s and 5800s in the US.
747s
Big ones.