Air Enthusiast 1972-10 / ??? - The 40-year-old newcomer: British Caledonian Airways

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-ARSD

Like the Bristol Freighter, the Aviation Traders Carvairs such as G-ARSD Chelsea Bridge, were used in BUA livery for a time before going to British Air Ferries.

Air International 2002-06 / R.Francillon - Comfort into money /Commercial/

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: N5459M

Resplendent in striking new colours, ATL Carvair N5459M is currently operated by Rand-based Phoenix Apollo Aviation. An aircraft with a glorious past, spanning 57 years, it was built as a Douglas C54E-5-DO and delivered to the USAF as 44-9088 on April 7, 1945. Later that year it returned to Douglas to join Pan American Airways as N88881 Clipper Kit Carlson. After serving with Japan Air Lines and Ansett-ANA, it was converted by Aviation Traders to an ATL-98 Carvair. In between periods in storage it subsequently flew with Seulawah Air Services, Nation Air, Hawaii Pacific Air and Air Cargo Hawaii. In November 2000 it departed Jan Smuts Airport for Kinshasa for scrapping, understood to be ‘no longer safe to fly'. This assumption was obviously wrong as there appears to be life in the old dog yet.

Aviation Historian 35 / A.Grandolini - On the wings of the Hansa (3)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: N33AC

The KAF C-123Ks were supplemented in the Phnom Penh air bridge operations by contracted civilian transports, including a sole Aviation Traders Carvair, N33AC, named Barb, operated by Air Cambodge, Cambodia’s national flag-carrier. It is seen here taxying in at Pochentong after another resupply run to a besieged town or city.

Air Enthusiast 2006-01 / P.Howard, B.Hickox - Mercy Angels of Angkor /Airliners and air services/ (2)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: LN-NAA   [2]

View of the Thai Am ramp at Bangkok post fall, revealing a couple of escapees, left former CAS CV-440 N102KA, centre former Air Cambodge DC-7B N774R, and right, one who never made it, the Croix Rouge Internationale Carvair LN-NAA which ended its days at the airfield.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Convair CV-240 Convair-Liner / C-131 / C-340 / C-440 - СШАUSA - 1946Douglas DC-7 - СШАUSA - 1953

Air Enthusiast 2006-05 / Round-Out

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: LN-NAA   [2]

Fantastic view of Bangkok on May 10,1971. Visible are five C-47s/DC-3s in various states of ‘health'; Carvair LN-NAA; seven Pilatus Turbo-Porters; a Volpar Beech 18; seven dismantled T-28 Trojans and what could be a Skyraider in the hangar.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Beechcraft Model 18 / C-45 Expeditor - СШАUSA - 1937Douglas AD / A-1 Skyraider - СШАUSA - 1946Douglas DC-3 / C-47 Skytrain/С-53 Skytrooper / Dakota - СШАUSA - 1935North American T-28 Trojan - СШАUSA - 1949Pilatus PC-6 Porter / Turbo Porter - ШвейцарияSwitzerland - 1959

Air Pictorial 1961-10

Помимо новой носовой части с поднятой кабиной экипажа, "Aviation Traders" добавила к планеру DC-4 высокий киль для обеспечения поперечной устойчивости.

Мировая Авиация 37

Откидная носовая часть обеспечивала доступ к грузовому отсеку Carvair. Для подъема автомобилей и грузов использовался специальный подъемник. Многие самолеты использовались для обычных грузовых перевозок.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1966 / 02 - Aircraft

Loading a vehicle into an Aviation Traders ATL.98 Carvair air ferry transport

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1964 / 01 - Aircraft

Loading a vehicle into an Aviation Traders ATL.98 Carvair

Aviation Historian 15 / G.Ellis - Brothers in Arms

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-ASKG

Carvair G-ASKG of Air Ferry Ltd was one of two leased from British United Air Ferries in December 1965 to deliver supplies from Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania to Lusaka, where this photograph was taken, in support of British operations in Zambia. Both G-ASKG and G-APNH, the other leased Carvair, had returned to the UK by June 1966.

Air Enthusiast 1972-10 / ??? - The 40-year-old newcomer: British Caledonian Airways

Following the Hunting-Clan Airwork merger, the BUA fleet went through a number of livery changes. In this picture a former Air Charter C-54, G-AOFW Jason, is seen in British United Airways colours with a Channel Air Bridge Carvair beyond.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-4 / C-54 / R5D Skymaster - СШАUSA - 1942

Aviation Historian 15 / G.Ellis - Brothers in Arms

The Air Ferry Ltd ATL-98 Carvair just visible in the background of this photograph suggests that it was taken at Lusaka, where all civil operations in support of the RAF’s show of force were centred. As all airspace in the region was controlled from Salisbury, air traffic controllers in Zambia relied on “the enemy” for the safe conduct of air operations during the crisis.

Air Pictorial 1961-10

Aviation Traders ATL 98 Carvair. THE CARVAIR is a conversion of the Douglas DC-4 airframe and as such can carry five cars and twenty-five passengers. Differences between the DC-4 and the Carvair are confined mainly to the nose, fin and rudder. A completely new nose section with an elevated cockpit and nose door replaces the front fuselage of the basic DC-4 and it is this new nose that makes the Carvair distinctive. Although intended primarily for car-ferrying operations, the aircraft can be operated as a pure freighter or in a combined passenger/freight role. In the case of the latter a movable bulkhead which separates the passenger and freight compartments is moved to give a thirty-two-seat passenger cabin and a hold which is large enough to take four medium-sized cars or combinations of freight and cars. Aviation Traders are initially converting ten DC-4s for Channel Air Bridge and the rate of progress is that the second Carvair will be in service by the end of the year and four will be flying next year. Data: Wing span 117 ft. 6 in., length 102 ft. 7 in., height 29 ft. 10 in., loaded weight 73,800 lb., empty weight 40,372 lb., cruising speed 180 m.p.h., range 1,700 miles.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1964 / 01 - Aircraft

Aviation Traders ATL.98 Carvair air ferry transport