Canadair CL-66
Canadair CL-66 | |
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Type: | Transport plane |
Design country: | |
Manufacturer: | |
First flight: |
2nd February 1959 |
Commissioning: |
1960 |
Number of pieces: |
13 |
The CL-66 was the turboprop variant of the civil Convair CV-440 passenger aircraft and was used as the CC-109 Cosmopolitan to the standard VIP aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force and also for light transport tasks.
History and construction
After production of the Convair CV-440 was finished in San Diego, Canadair acquired the rights to the design, including assembly devices, tools and three unsold CV-440s. Due to the availability of the Napier Eland turboprop engine, the CV-440 became the Convair 540 . Like the CV-440, the CL-66 is also equipped with a pressurized cabin .
In 1958, the RCAF wanted to replace their aging Douglas C-47 with a turboprop- powered aircraft. The Vickers Viscount was their first choice , but the Canadian government decided against this aircraft. Instead, Canadair offered a number of Convair 540 variants with the Napier Eland turboprop engine. The project was named CL-66 and three versions were developed. The first flight of the CL-66C took place on February 2, 1959, the CL-66B followed in January 1960. Not a single "A" version was built. Canadair, despite its best efforts, did not receive any airline orders for the CL-66 because it was too expensive and other manufacturers' aircraft performed better. The RCAF took over ten aircraft, mostly CL-66B. Two machines used as demonstration aircraft were sold to Quebecair .
Since the Eland engines proved to be unreliable and too weak in terms of performance, these were replaced by Allison 501-D36 propeller turbines in the machines used by the RCAF in 1966 and 67 .
variants
- CL-66A
- 48/64 seated passenger aircraft
- CL-66B
- combined cargo / passenger aircraft
- CL-66C
- Convair CV-440 retrofitted with the Napier Eland turboprop engine
Military users
Technical specifications
Parameter | Data |
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crew | 3-4 |
Passengers | 64 |
length | 24.84 m |
span | 32.12 m |
height | 8.49 m |
Wing area | 89.54 m² |
Empty mass | 14,666 kg |
Max. Takeoff mass | 24,130 kg |
Cruising speed | 518 km / h |
Top speed | 547 km / h |
Service ceiling | 7620 m |
Range | 3660 km |
Engines | 2 × Napier Eland turboprop engines with 2611 kW each |
See also
literature
- Molson, Ken M. and Harold A. Taylor. Canadian Aircraft Since 1909 . Stittsville, Ontario: Canada's Wings, Inc., 1982. ISBN 0-920002-11-0 .
- Pickler, Ron and Larry Milberry. Canadair: The First 50 Years . Toronto: CANAV Books, 1995. ISBN 0-921022-07-7 .
- Taylor, John WR Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1961-62 . London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1961.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Canadair CC-109 Cosmopolitan." Shearwateraviationmuseum.ns.ca . Retrieved June 16, 2010.
- ↑ Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1961-62 Taylor 1961, pp. 21-22.