Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Could be an ACN/PCN issue, I suppose.
AFAIK the landing gear is the same on the 8/8F, but the max weight of the pax aircraft is about 6 tonnes higher than that for some of the freighters. That could be just enough to put the ACNs for the two variants on either side of some demarcation limit for the taxiway in question.
according a quick google search the -8F actually has a higher MTOW than the -8I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ht?wprov=sfti1