In late 1999 I airfreighted my BMW R100gs from Cairo to Addis Ababa. This is what I wrote on my website at the time


Flying became the only option. The bike wouldn't fit into through an A320 Airbus of Egypt Air or a Boeing 757 of Ethiopian Airlines cargo door. Only Lufthansa's A300 to Addis Ababa had a door big enough.

From Chapter 5 The Big Trip

Since then this topic hasn't been of interest as I can only usually afford seafreight, so don't know about any other aircraft.