Our Fleet — Western Global Airlines

Aircraft 01 · Heavy-Heavy

Type Designation

B747-400F · 743

Boeing · Everett, Washington

747-400F

The Queen of the Skies, in the configuration she was always destined for: nose-loading, all-cargo, four big GE fans, and a deck that swallows pallets like nothing else flying today.

The Brief

Built for the
impossible payload.

The 747-400F is the freighter every other freighter is measured against. A nose door that opens to a thirty-foot loading lip, a main deck wide enough for two 96-inch pallets side-by-side, and a powerplant — the General Electric CF6-80C2 — that has flown more revenue hours than any wide-body engine in commercial history.

Western Global operates the -400F variant in passenger-converted (BCF) and factory-built configurations. Range, with a full load, is enough to take a 124-tonne payload from Anchorage to Frankfurt non-stop. The deck swallows automotive sub-assemblies, satellite components, intermodal tanks, and live animals on the same revenue leg.

Operator's Note

"She floats over weight. You watch the panel and you remember why this airplane has been flying since '88. The 747 doesn't argue with the load — she argues with the weather, and she usually wins."

Captain · 747-400F · 14,200 hrs type

Specification Sheet

B747-400F

Manufacturer: Boeing
ICAO Type: B744
In WGA Service: 11 aircraft
Powerplant: 4 × GE CF6-80C2
Max Payload: 124,000 kg
Main-Deck Pallets: 30 × 96"
Lower Deck Pallets: 32 × LD-3
Range (full load): 4,450 nm
Cruise: Mach 0.85
Service Ceiling: FL450
Wingspan: 211 ft 5 in
Length: 231 ft 10 in
Door: Nose + Side Cargo

Best For

Outsize and overweight payloads · automotive · industrial machinery · livestock · long-range trans-oceanic routings.

Air-to-air · cruise

Tarmac · turn

Western Global Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-11F

Aircraft 02 · The Tri-Jet

Type Designation

MD-11F · MD11

McDonnell Douglas · Long Beach, California

MD-11F

The Tri-Jet that refuses to retire. Three CF6s on the airframe nobody else still flies in volume. The MD-11F goes where the 747 won't fit and the twin won't reach.

Specification Sheet

MD-11F

Manufacturer: McDonnell Douglas
ICAO Type: MD11
In WGA Service: 8 aircraft
Powerplant: 3 × GE CF6-80C2
Max Payload: 91,000 kg
Main-Deck Pallets: 26 × 96"
Lower Deck Pallets: 32 × LD-3
Range (full load): 3,800 nm
Cruise: Mach 0.82
Service Ceiling: FL430
Wingspan: 169 ft 10 in
Length: 200 ft 11 in
Door: Side Main + Lower

Best For

Short-runway heavy lift · trans-pacific narrow-body cargo runs · constrained-apron stations · high/hot operations.

The Brief

The runway
nobody else likes.

The MD-11F is what an airline buys when it has to land heavy on a strip the 777F won't touch. Three CF6 engines mean go-arounds with a single engine out of service. A 169-foot wingspan means it parks where the 747's tail can't clear the gate. And a tail-mount third engine means raw thrust at altitude — the kind that turns a marginal en-route alternate into a viable diversion.

Western Global runs the MD-11F as a complement to the 747 — picking up the legs the bigger jet can't economically serve. We are one of the last commercial operators of the type in the Western hemisphere. Our crews train it, our mechanics live in it, and our dispatchers love it for the trips that need both legs and lift.

Operator's Note

"There is nothing else flying that gives you this combination of payload, runway, and three-engine reserve. We pick the MD-11 for the trips that look impossible on paper. She makes them ordinary."

Director of Operations · Western Global

Photo · M. Richardson

Tail · 3rd Engine Stack

Photo · D. van der Zee

№	Registration	Type	Engines	Configuration	Base	Status
01	N344KD	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	BCF	KFMY	Active
02	N356KD	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	BCF	KFMY	Active
03	N415MC	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	Factory	KBYH	Active
04	N423MC	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	Factory	KFMY	Active
05	N462WG	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	BCF	KFMY	C-Check
06	N471WG	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	Factory	KFMY	Active
07	N482WG	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	BCF	KFMY	Active
08	N493WG	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	Factory	KFMY	Active
09	N502WG	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	BCF	KFMY	Active
10	N511WG	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	Factory	KFMY	Active
11	N524WG	B747-400F	4 × CF6-80C2	BCF	KFMY	Active
12	N801WG	MD-11F	3 × CF6-80C2	Converted	KFMY	Active
13	N802WG	MD-11F	3 × CF6-80C2	Converted	KFMY	Active
14	N803WG	MD-11F	3 × CF6-80C2	Factory	KFMY	Active
15	N805WG	MD-11F	3 × CF6-80C2	Converted	KBYH	C-Check
16	N806WG	MD-11F	3 × CF6-80C2	Factory	KFMY	Active
17	N807WG	MD-11F	3 × CF6-80C2	Factory	KFMY	Active
18	N808WG	MD-11F	3 × CF6-80C2	Converted	KFMY	Active
19	N809WG	MD-11F	3 × CF6-80C2	Factory	KFMY	Active

Our
Fleet.

747-400F

Built for the
impossible payload.

MD-11F

The runway
nobody else likes.

Nineteen tails.
One operator.

One engine.
Both fleets.

Need lift on a
specific tail?

Our Fleet.

747-400F

Built for theimpossible payload.

MD-11F

The runwaynobody else likes.

Nineteen tails.One operator.

One engine. Both fleets.

Need lift on aspecific tail?

Our
Fleet.

Built for the
impossible payload.

The runway
nobody else likes.

Nineteen tails.
One operator.

One engine.
Both fleets.

Need lift on a
specific tail?