Just as the Boeing *Dreamlifter *aircraft type is BLCF, I believe the Airbus *Beluga *aircraft type is A3ST. There are around five of them, said to fly around 60 hours each week. However, I can never find ‘A3ST’ active when using the search aircraft by type facility. Can anyone help me out?
I doubt you will see them much on flightaware anyway, officially they are A-300-600ST,they are still registered to Airbus because they carry aircraft parts and pieces with French Tail numbers,but so you will have them:
F-GSTA,F-GSTB,F-GSTC,F-GSTD,F-GSTF
Yeah, I have the Beluga tail numbers and might have, by pure luck, seen activity on one of them going into Hamburg. But the Boeing freighters are also company-owned, tho contracted to Atlas for aircrew. The Boeings run virtually non-stop between Japan, Charleston, Italy, and Everett. Even saw a suspicious An-124 from Volga-Dnepr flying the Sendai-AK-Everett route, which may give credibility to a comment that Boeing sometimes lacks capacity (or has a BLCF undergoing maint) to haul their own stuff. 