I fly to Iceland in a CL44J in May 1971 rt from JFK, they were converted to freighters later that year. I felt very lucky to be able to experience them.
Depending on flight profile, around twenty twenty two tons of fuel, but the downside of this attractive idea is most fuel hauls in AK or Canada are to short loose surfaced dirt strips. You can get away with this scenario using smaller L-188 Electras, Joe McBryan regularly hauls fourteen tons of fuel to DEW sites landing on ice strips with his two L-188,s. ,The'44' a lot bigger, its main tyres no wider in section than those of a city bus, the nose tyres same size as the rear wheels of a sit on lawnmower. This restricts the big Canadian Hauler to airports with decent paved runways.
@@basiltaylor8910 In the 90's I was an FE on a DC-6 tanker in AK N7780B, we could haul 3800 gallons of diesel fuel and land pretty much anywhere AK had to offer I always thought a turbine engine conversion for the Six would be optimum for that mission, cuz the aircraft could use a more widely available fuel opening up all of Northern AK and Canada for the aircraft
I am amazed any survived given that only 39 were built and the there were 21 hull losses. Did this example have the enormously expensive cockpit window conversion?
