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mounted RB211 mechanical drive packages from Mount Vernon, Ohio, U.S.A., to a customer in Thailand. The customer chose air travel, which meant an Antonov An-124 aircraft was used from the Rickenbacker airport near Columbus, Ohio.

The U.K.-based company Air Partner has also been heavily involved in the movement of power generation equipment including gas turbines over recent years either for installation or when existing equipment has failed.

Most recently the company has been air freighting small mobile power generator sets to areas where reconstruction is under way in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. However, similar urgent airlifts are often carried out in the event of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes. Key generator components are typically flown from Scandinavia, a recent route being Helsinki to Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The company said that freight movements for the oil and gas industries tend to be rapid response “go now” emergency situations moving spares and/or engineers direct into remote airports. The company claimed that chartering is often the most cost-effective and quickest way of moving equipment when the costly threat of lost production or exploration hovers. Antonov 12 aircraft are typically used for such flights, but large engineered items such as heavy gas turbines in excess of 100 tonnes are transported on heavy lift Antonov 124s and Antonov 225s. This often involved Air Partner’s involvement in the design and manufacture of specialized transportation skids, preparation, planning and delivery, as well as the flight itself.

Richard Smith, Air Partner’s freight manager, said, “There is a wide range of air charter solutions available depending on needs, and the service we provide is to identify the charter services that best meet each enquiry. This may be a whole aircraft charter in the case of an emergency where time is of the essence, a part-charter, or a combination of charter and scheduled freight services when items are needed quickly, but not necessarily urgently.” A

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