Overhead

Airbus

Airbus A300-600F

FedEx Express Airbus A300-600F freighter lifting off, three-quarter view showing its underwing engines and purple tail livery.
© Tomás Del Coro · CC BY-SA 2.0

From below

The view you'll actually get from high overhead.

UPS Airbus A300-600F freighter seen from below-quarter on final approach, showing the belly, underwing engines, and extended landing gear.
© 4300streetcar · CC BY 4.0

Field marks

  1. Short and fat for a widebody — noticeably stubbier and stockier than an A330, despite the two-aisle cabin cross-section
  2. Small delta-shaped end-fins at the wingtip, simpler and smaller than the A320 family's, and nothing like the A330's upturned blade tip
  3. Rounded, smoothly blended cockpit windows in classic Airbus style, unlike the boxier notched windshield of a similarly sized freighter like the MD-11F
  4. Almost always seen in FedEx purple or UPS brown — spotting one still in passenger colors today is rare

Specs

Length
54.08 m
Wingspan
44.84 m
Engines
General Electric CF6-80C2A5 / Pratt & Whitney PW4158
Typical seats
Freighter only — no passenger seating

Size and shape, to scale

Photos can't hold a consistent scale from shot to shot — these silhouettes are all drawn at the same 10 px = 1 m scale, so the proportions here are trustworthy even though the photos above aren't.

Variant notes

  • Airbus's first widebody and the basis for the A310 and A320 family wing design — the small delta-shaped end-fin seen here is the ancestor of the larger blade tips used on later A320s
  • Almost entirely a freighter fleet today; FedEx is by far the largest operator, with UPS also flying a smaller number
  • Production ended in 2007; the survivors are aging but remain a fixture at cargo hubs

Commonly confused with