History

The ATL Carvair was designed to carry cars across the English Channel. They were conversions of Douglas DC-4 airliners with new, high, noses which allowed cars to be loaded through the nose under the flight deck.

The Aviation Traders Limited (ATL) 98 Carvair was a conversion of Douglas DC-4 airliners.

It was designed in Britain as a car air ferry to transport cars across the English Channel, replacing the smaller Bristol Freighters.

Development began when DC-4s were being replaced in regular air services by jet airliners and were relatively cheap to buy and convert. The first one flew on 21 June 1961 and twenty-one were manufactured.

They served as general freighters with many airlines around the world into the 1990s.

This model represents VH-INJ which flew as a Douglas DC-4 for Ansett-ANA between 1963 and 1965 and as a Carvair between October 1965 and June 1972.

Roden 1/144 kit with Hawkeye decals. Completed in May 2014.

Data

MODEL: ATL 98 Carvair (Ansett-ANA, VH-INJ, 1965)

ROLE: Cargo and passenger aircraft

TIME PERIOD: 1961-1975

ENGINES: four Pratt and Whitney R-2000-7M2 Twin Wasp radial engines of 1,081kW each

WING SPAN: 35.82m

LENGTH: 31.27m

MAXIMUM TAKE OFF WEIGHT: 33,475 kg

CRUISING SPEED: 334km/h

RANGE: 3,700km

PAYLOAD: 85 passengers or five cars and 22 passengers

CREW: 2 or 3

SCALE: 1/144

KIT:

DECALS: Hawkeye

GALLERIES: , , ,

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