How Do Turboprops Get Delivered To Far Away Customers?

Turboprop aircraft are used all over the world, yet most are manufactured in Europe or North America. With their limited range, this can lead to some complex multi-leg delivery flights. This is, of course, the case with larger jets too, but these are much more straightforward deliveries with their increased range. Let’s take a look at how turboprops get delivered to customers a long way away.

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[Astroman]

I flew on an extremely long ferry flight on a shorts SD 360. We Nashville, West Virginia, goosebay Canada, nasaseraq Greenland, Iceland, Belfast, Corsica, Crete, Luxor, Muscat Oman, Bombay, Calcutta, Bangkok, Kota Kinabalu Malaysia, Palau, Philippines, Saipan Micronesia. Took ten days, including a three day stop in Palau. Unpressurized, so mostly at or below ten thousand feet! Quite an experience.

[Quintinius]

I used to work at ATR delivery center in Toulouse.
We delivered to air Vanuatu a company in the pacific. The whole ferry flight was planned to take 13 days with 9 stops.
Those deliveries were really important because the flight schedule is tight and we really had to deliver on time

[deejayimm]

Just for those who don't know, turboprops are actually pretty fuel efficient, they are just better operating at lower altitudes and lower speeds, and thus are relegated to shorter flying distances.
I know it's true because I read it on the internet.

[ashleyrego]

Thanks for covering this.... Quite an important topic

[nicolas]

When I was worked in French Guyana, my company shared its office with another one specialized in aerial photogrammetry. This company bought a new aircraft, a Cessna 206 in Denmark. The previous one was lost during a landing in a remote airfield in Guyana. The small aircraft did a long ferry flight in 17 steps : Denmark, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, USA and Antilles.

[memofromessex]

I remember seeing an article on people who fly single-prop planes (Cessna like planes) across the Atlantic to buyers on either side. They have to go super low, obviously it's very risky and weather dependent

[andrewtaylor]

As an interesting historical example of this sort of thing, by 1944-45 the US Military had worked things out where any 2 engine aircraft in their inventory could “self ferry” to any point in the Pacific (that wasn’t Japanese controlled at the moment), From Los Angeles or San Diego, without needing to be carried by ship.

[steve]

I was doing an IT project for British Airways at their maintenance base at Heathrow. From time to time, you would see aircraft from other carriers. Anyway, one day an Aeromexico Boeing 737 turned up and I asked the engineer how it got there and he said (logically when you think about it) "The same way all other 737's make it to Europe". Apparently, it had flown from Mexico across the US, refuelled and then did the run to somewhere like Shannon before finally the short hop to Heathrow. Never found out why it was in the UK.

[Agent]

This has always been a big question of mine. Thanks for this.

[EnRiCo]

what a conincidence, the aircraft from my company (Pilatus Porter) was delivered from Swiss to Indonesia not long ago, and had to make sseveral stops in europe, middle east, south asia and finally landing in Indonesia not too long ago. took about more than week for the trip

[magnustan]

I remember Air Caledonie had one of their ATR 72-600s stopover in my local general aviation airport on its delivery flight from France. One of just 8 stops the aircraft made. What about crew? Are there two crews used to deliver such turboprops?

[sjappy]

This channel being called ‘long haul’ makes it so much better

[Deltarious]

Ferry flights being possible to most places in the world is one of the things 'gifted' to us by the legacy of aviation's development where before we did not really have the capability of doing long flights without hops and so many airports in fairly inhospitable places were opened with fuel to facilitate these hops and a reasonable number of them still remain today, which is pretty cool

[JamesSymmonds]

"The crew even made a short video about it" And then they don't even put a link to said video.

[gezatherton]

I’ve got a fondness for the Dash 8. Love them! :)

[jzee]

Q. How Do Turboprops Get Delivered To Far Away Customers?
A. They stop to re-fuel.

thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[Nathan-zibl]

My dad flew his bonanza from Paris to Melbourne which took 2 weeks

[thatsicilian]

I was wondering this, and now i know.
U have a new subscriber

[sirhc_knil]

I thank the Youtube algorithm for recommending a video to me that I find so interesting because turboprop are my favourite types of planes and have a documentary video about them is amazing

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[ChristopherWHerbert]

Air New Zealand have said a delivery flight of an ATR72 will travel by way of seven countries on route to New Zealand. It must be noted also that Air New Zealand have one of the largest fleets of DH Dash 8 aircraft outside of Canada