{"id":128,"date":"2014-01-01T05:13:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T05:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2016-03-21T23:22:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T23:22:59","slug":"737-freighter-conversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/737-freighter-conversions\/","title":{"rendered":"737 Freighter Conversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>In late 2012 the widebody air cargo market took a plunge. For the most part it has not recovered and remains stagnant.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #0f3647; line-height: 24px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-131 alignleft\" alt=\"photo (3)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-3-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As 2014 begins the narrow body &#8220;passenger to freighter&#8221; conversion market is heating up. Below are a quartet of articles that describe the market conditions today with special consideration to the 737 freighter conversions.<\/p>\n<p>As legacy carriers across the planet re-fleet with 737-NG&#8217;s, the 737-Classic market has finally reached liquidation prices. Aircraft can be acquired for the price of engines and paint mostly.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska and Ethiopian Airlines are demanding a 737-800 freighter to replace their aging 737-400&#8217;s. A\u00a0737-800 Freighter will change everything with increased range and 180 min ETOPS capability the 737-Classics do not have.<\/p>\n<p>The race is on for this aircraft.\u00a0Hopefully we find out soon who will be doing the STC for the 737-NG freighter conversion.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.afm.aero\/magazine\/fleet-operations\/item\/626-freighter-conversions\" target=\"_blank\">Freighter conversions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircargoworld.com\/Air-Cargo-News\/2013\/07\/narrow-bodies-pace-conversion-market\/3014713\" target=\"_blank\">Narrow-bodies pace conversion market<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cargofacts.net\/profiles\/blogs\/a-737-800-freighter-may-be-closer-than-you-think\" target=\"_blank\">A 737-800 Freighter may be closer than you think<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/Article.aspx?id=\/article-xml\/avd_01_21_2013_p03-01-538982.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Future Of 737NG Freighter Conversions Could Be Decided By Boeing This Year<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! In late 2012 the widebody air cargo market took a plunge. For the most part it has not recovered and remains stagnant. As 2014 begins the narrow body &#8220;passenger to freighter&#8221; conversion market is heating up. Below are a quartet of articles that describe the market conditions today with special consideration to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9,4],"tags":[81,80,79],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-737-800-freighter","category-air-cargo","category-aviation","tag-737-800-freighter","tag-air-cargo","tag-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeuslan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}