Spotted yesterday flying very low over Hull (around 5.30pm) heading south. The aircraft looked like a DC3 but with turbo engines and props. The aircraft might be painted white top, grey undersides with blue cheat line. The aircraft featured a white magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) type tail boom – quite long and thin. The problem is that the wing was not round at the tip (not a DC3), but the dihedral was that of a DC3. In all honesty I had a problem gauging the size, and for a brief second I did think it could be a Devon.
Can anyone shed any light on this aircraft?
By: Ostfront - 14th July 2012 at 11:51
The aircraft is currently operating out of Humberside and will be for a couple of months.It generally is parked up on the Eastern Airways Hangar ramp
By: Phillip Rhodes - 10th July 2012 at 02:30
The tail wheel was a big part of its success, allowing it to operate from unimproved runways, getting the cargo door closer to the ground for easier loading/unloading without equipment, and so on.
true…
By: Bager1968 - 9th July 2012 at 23:29
The tail wheel was a big part of its success, allowing it to operate from unimproved runways, getting the cargo door closer to the ground for easier loading/unloading without equipment, and so on.
By: Phillip Rhodes - 9th July 2012 at 16:29
The only thing to replace a DC-3 is another DC-3!
Agreed, and if the DC3 was designed and fitted with tricycle undercarriage from the start, I would imagine they would still be building them today!!!
By: Mike J - 9th July 2012 at 05:13
The only thing to replace a DC-3 is another DC-3!
By: waco - 9th July 2012 at 01:21
Well…it would’nt want to land there would it……………..
By: Phillip Rhodes - 9th July 2012 at 01:19
Well done Tim!!!
The aircraft was indeed a Basler BT-67 and I suspect it was C-FTGI:
http://www.civilianaviation.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6032
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basler_BT-67
The Basler BT-67 is a fixed-wing aircraft produced by Basler Turbo Conversions of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It is built on a retrofitted Douglas DC-3 airframe, with modifications designed to improve the DC-3’s serviceable lifetime. The conversion includes fitting the airframe with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67R turboprop engines, lengthening the fuselage, strengthening the airframe, upgrading the avionics, and making modifications to the wings’ leading edge and wing tip.
It was the wing tips that threw me…
By: Consul - 9th July 2012 at 00:08
It’s a Canadian registered Basler turbo conversion and is doing survey work. It was based in Eire for a while a few years back then spent time at Hurn before going on its travels to Africa and has now returned to Europe.
Tim
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