The mail from my colleagues at one of the companies:

• Hi Dominik, we have the airline customer – they are a start up cargo airline from Burkina Faso…
• OK, great, so how can I help?
• You know they have two old B737-400 all freighters….
• Good, smart choice.
• Ummm can you do their AHM565?
• Yes, sure…
• But it will be a full cargo aircraft AHM565…
• Yes, as I said…
• But this is a full freighter…
• No problem – if they have the weight and balance manual for their aircraft and all the papers done after rebuilding to cargo aircraft I got all what I needed…
• Yeah, they even have an AHM560 from the previous operator…
• Good, so it’s going to be a AHM560 to AHM565 migration more less, just give them my phone number and e-mail and I’ll help them…

Full freighter aircraft are often perceived as overly complex, which causes unnecessary hesitation. In reality, the lower deck data remain virtually identical to those of a passenger aircraft, while the upper deck requires additional attention. Categorizing AHM565 sheets D7, D8, and D9 as ‘Not Applicable’ is straightforward. While data complexity will naturally vary, the process is manageable as long as the primary documentation is available and the exact physical locations of the aircraft items are known.