A forklift lowering a netted cargo pallet onto a single Air Cargo Dock table bay while two personnel steady the frame

Field equipment that keeps the cargo moving.

Air terminal equipment that builds, stages and loads 463L pallet trains independently of K-loader availability.

Mission Support Equipment
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The Mission Support Equipment family.

The system
01 · Air Cargo Dock

463L build-up without a K-loader.

The family's one system: table bays that assemble into a dock on any hardstand, so pallet trains are built, staged and loaded without waiting on ground support equipment.

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A loaded six-bay Air Cargo Dock on a wet apron at a three-quarter angle, screw-jack legs on base plates, an A400M defocused behind

One dock, three things it has to get right.

In detail
The dock is specified around the pallet, the airlift and the surface it stands on. Each of these is settled at quotation.
An Air Cargo Dock deck seen head-on, two roller tracks down the middle with a walkway and handrails on both sides

Build-up and breakdown.

01 · The deck
Stainless roller tracks on a galvanized deck take a complete 463L pallet train, with walkways and handrails down both sides so the crew works alongside the load rather than on it.
  • 13,500 lb (6,136 kg) per table bay
  • 463L and ISU90 compatible
  • Stainless steel rollers on spring mountings
  • Walkway and handrail both sides of the deck

Ninety minutes, two people.

02 · Assembly and transit
A bay goes together in fifteen minutes with no special tools and no technical manual, and the whole dock packs flat onto a single 463L pallet — so it moves on the airlift it serves.
  • Six-bay dock operational in 90 minutes, two people
  • 15 minutes per bay, no special tools
  • A full six-table dock packs onto one 463L pallet
  • No cranage and no materials handling equipment
The understructure of a loaded Air Cargo Dock bay, galvanized tube legs and cross-bracing bolted together
An Air Cargo Dock seen from ground level along its length, height-adjustable legs on base plates and truss bracing under the deck

Any firm hardstand.

03 · Siting
Screw-jack feet on base plates level the deck across whatever the apron actually is, and the finish is specified for the weather the airfield actually has.
  • Height-adjustable screw-jack legs on base plates
  • Galvanized steel structure, specified against sand, salt and humidity
  • Main operating bases, forward operating locations and contingency airfields
  • Any hardstand or dispersal area — no site preparation

Air cargo that moves without the ground equipment.

Why this family exists
An air terminal is only as fast as the handling equipment it can get to the ramp. Mission Support Equipment is the kit that removes that dependency — starting with 463L pallet build-up and breakdown that does not wait on a K-loader.
Air Cargo Dock sections flat-packed in a stack ready to move as cargo, box-section frames and anti-slip deck panels visible in cross-section
Close-up along a slotted aluminium deck panel, the machined slots running away in rows across the anti-slip surface
Engineered in-house

Built in BANAIR factories.

Designed, fabricated and finished in-house in Dudley (UK) and Słupy (PL) — structural steel to EN 10025 / ASTM A572, hot-dip galvanized to EN ISO 1461 / ASTM A123, welded to EN ISO 15614-1 under ISO 9001:2015.

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What every system in this family shares.

Common strengths

Independent of ground equipment

Builds, stages and loads complete 463L pallet trains without waiting on K-loader availability.

Two people, ninety minutes

Each table bay assembles in 15 minutes with no special tools and no technical manuals; a six-bay dock is working within 90 minutes of unloading.

Travels as cargo

A complete six-table dock packs flat onto a single 463L pallet — it moves on the airlift it serves.

Built for the apron

Galvanized steel structure, stainless steel rollers and screw-jack feet — specified for sand, salt and humidity, on any firm hardstand.

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