CargoLifter
![Exterior view of hangar at the former Brand-Briesen Airfield, built for Cargolifter](/Images/godic/202501/03/Brand_Cargolifter_Halle4845.jpg")
![Interior. Note the three people at the lower left for scale](/Images/godic/202501/03/Brand_Cargolifter_Halle_innen4845.jpg")
Cargolifter AG was a German company founded in 1996 to offer logistical services through point-to point transport of heavy and outsized loads. This service was based on the development of a heavy lift airship, the CL160, a 550,000 m vessel designed to carry a 160-tonne payload. The airship was never built and the company went bankrupt in 2002. Today the shareholder-founded CL CargoLifter GmbH & Co. KG company seeks to continue selling the lighter-than-air technology.