page_title: Cargo aircraft
section_title: Unpiloted cargo aircraft
hierarchical_section_title: Cargo aircraft / Types of cargo aircraft / Unpiloted cargo aircraft
caption_attribution_description: English: PAC P-750 XSTOL
context_page_description: A cargo aircraft is a fixed-wing aircraft that is designed or converted for the carriage of cargo rather than passengers. Such aircraft usually do not incorporate passenger amenities and generally feature one or more large doors for loading cargo. Freighters may be operated by civil passenger or cargo airlines, by private individuals or by the armed forces of individual countries.
  Aircraft designed for cargo flight usually have features that distinguish them from conventional passenger aircraft: a wide/tall fuselage cross-section, a high-wing to allow the cargo area to sit near the ground, numerous wheels to allow it to land at unprepared locations, and a high-mounted tail to allow cargo to be driven directly into and off the aircraft.
  By 2015, dedicated freighters represent 43% of the 700 billion ATK capacity, while 57% is carried in airliner's cargo holds, and Boeing forecast Belly freight to rise to 63% while specialised cargoes would represent 37% of a 1,200 billion ATKs in 2035.
  The Cargo Facts Consulting firm forecasts that the global freighter fleet will rise from 1,782 in 2019 to 2,920 twenty years later.
context_section_description: Rapid delivery demand and e-commerce growth stimulate UAV freighters development for 2020:
  Californian Elroy Air wants to replace trucks on inefficient routes and should fly a subscale prototype;
  Californian Natilus plans a Boeing 747 sized transpacific unpiloted freighter and should fly a subscale prototype;
  Californian Sabrewing Aircraft targets small regional unpiloted freighter and should fly a 65%-scale vehicle in 2018 fall;
  The Chinese Academy of Sciences flew its 3,300 lb (1,500 kg) payload AT200 in October 2017 based on New Zealand's PAC P-750 XSTOL utility turboprop
  Chinese package carrier SF Express conducted emergency logistics tests in December 2017 with a Tengoen Technologies’ TB001 medium-altitude UAV, and plan an eight-turbofan carrying 20 t (44,000 lb) more than 4,100 nmi (7,600 km)
  Boeing flew its Boeing Cargo Air Vehicle prototype, a vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) craft.
  Carpinteria, California-startup Dorsal Aircraft wants to make light standard ISO containers part of its unpiloted freighter structure where the wing, engines and tail are attached to a dorsal spine fuselage.
  Interconnecting 5–50 ft (1.5–15.2 m) long aluminum containers carry the flight loads, aiming to lower overseas airfreight costs by 60%, and plan to convert C-130H with the help of 
  Wagner Aeronautical of San Diego, experienced in passenger-to-cargo conversions.
  Beijing-based Beihang UAS Technology developed its BKZ-005 high-altitude, long-range UAV for cargo transport, capable of carrying 1.2 t (2,600 lb) over 1,200 km (650 nmi) at 5,000 m (16,000 ft).
  Garuda Indonesia will test three of them initially from September 2019, before operations in the fourth quarter.
  Garuda plans up to 100 cargo UAVs to connect remote regions with limited airports in Maluku, Papua, and Sulawesi.
caption: The Chinese Academy of Sciences flew an unpiloted PAC P-750 XSTOL
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