FedEx retired 12 aircraft in its fiscal fourth quarter as the company sought to align network capacity with anticipated ...

Lithuania announced on Jun. 19, 2025 the selection of the Embraer C-390 Millenium military cargo aircraft as its next airlifter, and will soon begin negotiations with the Brazilian aviation major.

Join Captain George for a walk around the 46-year-old McDonnell Douglas DC-9-34 Freighter. The video covers a flight from Nairobi, Kenya to Mwanza, Tanzania, where the aircraft cruised at 27,000 ft ...

Even the MD-11, one of the most modern tri-jets produced, has been relegated to cargo duty after its final passenger flight in 2014. Twin-engine jets have taken over the skies.

The three-jet-engine plane was a common sight in the skies for decades, and then it wasn't. What led to the rise and fall of the tri-jet commercial plane?

The MD-10 shared a similar cockpit setup with the MD-11, enabling pilots to operate both aircraft with minimal additional training.

FedEx has switched from downsizing to incrementally growing its air cargo fleet by ordering large 777 freighters and postponing plans to retire older MD-11 jets. The post FedEx orders Boeing 777 ...

FedEx has switched from downsizing to incrementally growing its air cargo fleet by ordering large 777 freighters and postponing plans to retire older MD-11 jets.

The MD-11, successor to the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jet, promised a better future for the company. But things didn't go as planned after its first flight.

Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss the McDonnell Douglas MD-11’s legacy now that FedEx and UPS have both announced plans to retire the trijet.

The cargo aircraft, known as McDonnell Douglas MD-11, was traveling from Seoul to Anchorage, Alaska. Cripps said bad weather around Alaska meant it needed a different place to land.

Lufthansa Cargo made its last McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 flight last week and has sold three of the aircraft to Florida-based Western Global Airlines.