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Clean Gulf Associates acquires new $6.5 million aircraft
Clean Gulf Associates has purchased a $6.5 million aircraft that specializes in dropping dispersants over spilled oil. 
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BT-67 Approved for Flight Into Known Icing Conditions
Basler’s BT-67 became the first ever variant of the DC-3 (piston or turbine) to be granted approval for flight into known ice conditions. 
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BT-67 to Germany

The Alfred Wegener Institute of Germany has commissioned a BT-67 equipped with skis to be used for scientific research of the Polar Regions of the Arctic and Antarctic . . .
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Specifications

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Mission Ready
After thousands of hours of design, each BT-67 is engineered to assure that every component, assembly, or system is either new or the equivalent of new. All workmanship and materials meet the highest standards of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The philosophy inherent in our manufacturing process is to exceed industry standards by following an uncompromising approach to excellence that produces a product of the highest quality.

Airframe:
  • Inspected and overhauled to fully re-engineer and strengthen airframe. Returns airframe to original specification, or exceeds original specification. Includes a structural reinforcement package. Rated as "zero accumulated fatigue damage".
  • Fuselage stretched 40-inches (forward of wing).
  • Cockpit bulkhead moved forward 60-inches to increase payload cabin volume and aerodynamic performance.
  • Redesigned outer wing leading edge and wing tip.

Payload and Performance: Compared to the standard DC-3, the BT-67 has:
  • 35% more interior volume
  • 43% more useful load
  • 24% more speed
  • Up to 100% more fuel capacity
  • Lower stall speed
  • Lower approach speed
  • Fuel mileage equal at equal speeds
  • All metal control surfaces (optional)
  • Center and outer wings reinforced in 250 places to reduce loads on lower wing attach angles and to support the increased maximum gross weight.

Interior Dimensions:
Width (At Floor):   7 feet
Height:   6 feet, 6 inches
Length:   42 feet, 2 inches

Volume: 1225 Cubic Feet

Documented 12,000 Hour Overhaul:
  • Douglas Supplemental Inspection (SID)
  • FAA Airworthiness Directives incorporated
  • Service bulletin compliance
  • New skin and ribs as required -
    - Corrosion repair
    - Damage repair
    - Aesthetics
  • New interior corrosion protection
  • New or overhauled:
    - Main landing gear
    - Tail gear assembly
    - Landing gear retract and compensating cylinders
    - Tail wheel shock strut
    - Hydraulic accumulator
    - Wing flap actuating cylinder

Standard Conversion Items Cockpit:
  • Overhead system panels
  • Circuit breakers
  • Electrical junction box
  • New instrument panel

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Engines:
  • PT6A-67R engines, accessories
  • Components and hardware
  • Cowlings
  • Nacelles
  • Control Quadrant






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Propellers:
  • 5-Blade metal propeller
  • Spinner
  • De-icer boots

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Wings:

Fuselage Extension:

Flight Control System:
  • Including bob weight and down springs on elevator system
  • Servo assisted ailerons

De-Icing Equipment:
  • Complete propeller and engine air inlet de-icing system
  • Bleed air supply for wing and empennage de-icer boots (wing and empennage available as options)
  • Electrically heated one-piece windshields

Electrical Systems:
  • Four-buss systems (left and right generator, essential and emergency busses)
  • 300 amp starter generators
  • Completely new wiring harnesses
  • (2) new higher energy 12-volt dry cell batteries

Hydraulic System:
  • Engine driven variable displacement pumps

Fuel System:
  • Electrically driven fuel pumps - (2) left and right main, and (2) left and right standby
  • Electrically driven transfer pumps (2)
  • New fuel lines and fittings
  • New leak-proof filler caps
  • New fuel quantity transmitters and indicators
  • Fuel computer and flow indication system

   
New Design Fire
Detection & Fire Extinguishers System:
  • FAR Part 25 compliant
  • Dual sensing, 3 element,
    4 bottle system

Manuals:
  • Flight manual
  • Military flight manual
  • Maintenance manual
  • Structural repair manual
  • Illustrated parts catalog
  • Wiring manual
  • Engine manual
  • Propeller manual

Systems Replaced:
  • Electrical system replaced by complete new system designed for FAR Part 25.
  • Hydraulic system upgraded for improved gear retraction time
  • Fuel system engineered to FAR Part 25
  • Brakes, B.F. Goodrich H2-445, expander tube brake assembly installed
  • Anti-ice and de-ice equipment
    - Propellers
    - Inlets
    - Windshields
  • New bleed-air heating system (muffled)
  • Low infrared signature due to an augmented exhaust system, which disperses over the upper wing surface
     

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Power Plant:
  • Effective proven and powerful Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67R certified to FAR Part 33 amendment 10 with Hartzell 5-blade aluminum reversing propeller. Reliable, clean, efficient, and quiet ... certified to FAR Part 36 stage III

Avionics:

NEW Systems:
  • Power plant
  • De-ice
  • Hydraulics
  • Avionics
  • Autopilot
  • Air conditioning
  • Fuel
  • Stall Warning
  • Electrical
  • Oxygen
  • Fire protection

Options:

Special Mission Options:

 STC: FAA Supplemental Type Certificate SA4840NM and Part Manufacturing
Authorization held by: Basler Turbo Conversions, LLC, Oshkosh, WI  USA
 

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