Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Heavy lift aircraft operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,140 heavy lift aircraft operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 42,428 professional contacts across them, including 10,809 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Dubai the largest hub.
This list covers heavy lift aircraft operators worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for heavy lift aircraft operators follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest heavy lift aircraft operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Atlas Air Worldwide is the world’s leader in outsourced aviation logistics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,617 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sarens has been providing heavy lift, engineered transport and specialized rigging services for 60 years, building a thriving global enterprise that today operates in over 60…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,992 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bristow Group Inc.(NYSE: VTOL) is the leading global provider of innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,861 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cargolux is Europe’s largest all cargo carrier and boasts a modern fleet of purpose-built 747-400 and 747-8 freighters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 959 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Air Charter Service (ACS) is an aircraft charter company that arranges passenger and cargo aircraft charters worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 768 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ATI is a US passenger and cargo airline headquartered in Wilmington, Ohio with maintenance bases in across the US and world-wide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 757 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With more than 50 years of experience in the air cargo industry, Amerijet is a leading cargo airline, operating a dedicated fleet of Boeing 767-300 freighters from its hub at…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 620 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MNG Airlines has been a leading player in global air cargo logistics since 1996, serving customers with reliable, flexible, and high-quality transportation solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 468 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Columbia Helicopters, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 419 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2012 in Baku, at the heart of the Silk Road, Silk Way West Airlines operates around 350 monthly flights across the globe via its fleet of 12 dedicated Boeing 747-8F and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Challenge Group is the global leader of door-to-door complex air cargo logistics operator offering tailored and integrated end-to-end solutions from airfreight, handling, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 350 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Heavy lift, transport and offshore installation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 323 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We first flew to the gold mine at Frieda River 30 years ago for a contract we still serve today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 317 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leader Français du transport exceptionnel (bateaux, énergies, nucléaires, aéronautique, BTP, Nautisme, …), le Groupe Capelle s'appuie sur 70 ans d'expérience pour offrir le…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 315 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ASL Airlines Ireland (ASLI), formerly Air Contractors, is an Irish airline based in Dublin operating both passenger and cargo transportation services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In the market since 1979, Grupo Cordeiro operates with excellence in practical solutions in the transportation, movement and storage of heavy loads, using state-of-the-art…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 298 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Deep South Crane & Rigging provides heavy-lift, heavy-haul, and heavy-rigging solutions for industrial, energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure projects throughout the Americas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STERLING CRANE A Marmon Crane Services/Berkshire Hathaway Company RAISING THE STANDARD OF SERVICE EXCELLENCE SINCE 1954 Committed To Safety, Service, Quality Equipment and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 272 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LASO TRANSPORTES, S.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 264 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Western Global Airlines has redefined the contracted air cargo transportation services model, which had been static for almost 50 years, by developing an improved model that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Utair Group is the Russian major aviation group with over 50 years of history operating on 4 continents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em 1962, a Morada Transportes se especializou em atender clientes que possuem cargas especiais, como commodities agrícolas, produtos químicos, combustíveis e gases do ar.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 238 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maersk Air Cargo A/S, a subsidiary of A.P.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 219 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Especialistas en transporte de piezas especiales, indivisibles, sobre-dimensionadas y extra-pesadas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Air Belgium offers Cargo ACMI/Wet Lease, Freighter and on-demand Charters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: heavy lift aircraft operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names heavy lift aircraft operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of heavy lift aircraft operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name heavy lift aircraft operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Heavy lift aircraft operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among heavy lift aircraft operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for heavy lift aircraft operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “heavy lift aircraft operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names heavy lift aircraft operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among heavy lift aircraft operators, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 10,809 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Heavy lift aircraft operators by location
7 lists · largest firstEvery Heavy lift aircraft operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Heavy lift aircraft operators based in the United States217
- Heavy lift aircraft operators based in Brazil76
- Heavy lift aircraft operators based in the United Kingdom45
- Heavy lift aircraft operators based in Germany42
- Heavy lift aircraft operators based in the United Arab Emirates42
- Heavy lift aircraft operators based in Canada31
- Heavy lift aircraft operators based in Australia29
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names heavy lift aircraft operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many heavy lift aircraft operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,140 heavy lift aircraft operators worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Atlas AIR, headquartered in White Plains, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most heavy lift aircraft operators?
The United States leads with 217 companies, followed by Brazil (76) and the United Kingdom (45). Every heavy lift aircraft operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most heavy lift aircraft operators?
Dubai leads with 24 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (16) and London (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 10,809 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,140 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.