Mototok Spacer 200 Widebody Electric Towbarless Tug

The Spacer 200 is the largest machine in the Mototok range: a fully electric, radio-remote-controlled towbarless tug rated for aircraft up to 200 tonnes with a 22-tonne nosewheel capacity. It is built to move nearly the entire commercial fleet short of the A380 and B747 - Boeing 787, 777-X, 767 and 757, the Airbus A350, A340, A330, A320 family and A220, plus Embraer E-Jets - making it a single-machine solution for mixed widebody/narrowbody MRO hangars and line stations.

Operation follows the Mototok pattern that has logged over three million pushbacks since 2017: one operator walks beside the aircraft with a TUV-certified radio remote, the hydraulic platform captures and lifts the double-nosewheel gear automatically in around 15 seconds, and the tug repositions the aircraft at up to 4 km/h with centimetre-level precision. The 1,400 mm wide wheel opening accepts nosewheels from 650 to 1,200 mm deep, the platform lifts 200 mm, and hydraulic nosewheel securing locks the gear at the push of a button - no straps, no crawling under the fuselage, no brake-rider in the cockpit for hangar moves.

Power comes from four maintenance-free 330 Ah high-current AGM batteries on a 96 V system; the microprocessor-regulated charger restores full capacity in about 6 hours, sufficient for a day's hangar workload. Electric AC drive means zero local emissions and near-silent movement - decisive for night-shift MRO work and for indoor positioning where diesel tractors force ventilation constraints. At 13 tonnes unladen and 879 mm high in pickup position, it occupies a fraction of the footprint of a conventional widebody tractor.

For GCC MRO campuses and widebody operators investing in hangar electrification, the Spacer 200 pairs with Mototok Cloud remote diagnostics from the Krefeld factory and the same EN 1915 / EN 12312-7 GSE conformity as the rest of the range. Airbus uses Spacer-family machines at its own Hamburg plant, and Air France KLM widebody hangar operations feature in Mototok's published reference material.