AVIATION TRADER ATL.98 "CARVAIR"

Description

The Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair was a large piston-engine transport aircraft. It was a Douglas DC-4-based air ferry developed by Freddie Laker’s Aviation Traders (Engineering) Limited (ATL), with a capacity of 25 passengers and five cars, loaded at the front. Freddie Laker’s idea to convert surplus DC-4/C-54s to carry cars was a relatively inexpensive solution to develop a successor to the rapidly aging and increasingly inadequate Bristol 170 Freighter/Superfreighter, the car ferry airlines’ mainstay since the late-1940s. (Scale : 1/144e)