more | Phoenix Models 1/200 ATL-98 CarVair British Air Ferries Diecast Model aircraft (PH2BAF013)
The Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair was a Douglas DC-4 / C-54 converted into an air ferry by Freddie Laker's Aviation Traders (Engineering) Limited (ATL), allowing it to carry 25 passengers and five cars, loaded at the front.The Carvair was used by Aer Lingus, BUAF and British Air Ferries (BAF) among others, and was used in Congo-Kinshasa during 1960-1964, under contract to the United Nations. Aircraft for Aer Lingus were quickly convertible between 55 seats and 22 seats with five cars. Some aircraft were pure freighters with only nine seats. One aircraft had 55 high-density seats and room for three cars. British Air Ferries were the last operator in Europe of the aircraft, keeping them flying into the 1970s. British United Carvairs made appearances in the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger and in The Prisoner in the episode "The Chimes of Big Ben", where it is seen loading through the nose, taking off and then landing again.more.. | |
more | Phoenix Models 1/200 ATL-98 CarVair British United Diecast Model aircraft (PH2BAF013)
The Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair was a Douglas DC-4 / C-54 converted into an air ferry by Freddie Laker's Aviation Traders (Engineering) Limited (ATL), allowing it to carry 25 passengers and five cars, loaded at the front.Of the 21 airframes, eight were destroyed in crashes, (One each in Rotterdam, Holland 1962, Karachi, Pakistan 1967, Twin Falls, Canada 1968, Le Touquet, France 1971 and three in the USA, Miami, FL 1969, Venetie, AK 1997, Griffin, GA also in 1997 and McGrath, Alaska in 2007. Perhaps the best known Carvair crash was the one at Griffin in April 1997, where on its take-off run the (5th production) Carvair had catastrophic engine failure at take-off, failed to become properly airborne, and crashed into a vacant Piggly Wiggly supermarket past the airport perimeter, killing both pilotsmore.. | |
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