page_title: Aviation Traders Carvair
section_title: Operational history
hierarchical_section_title: Aviation Traders Carvair / Operational history
caption_attribution_description: Aviation Traders Carvair F-BMHV of Compagnie Air Transport at Manchester Airport in 1967
context_page_description: The Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair was a large transport aircraft powered by four radial engines. It was a Douglas DC-4-based air ferry conversion developed by Freddie Laker's Aviation Traders Limited, with a capacity generally of 22 passengers in a rear cabin, and five cars loaded in at the front.
context_section_description: The Carvair was used by Aer Lingus, BUAF and BAF among others, and was used in Congo-Kinshasa during 1960–1964, under contract to the United Nations. Aircraft for Aer Lingus were quickly convertible between 55 seats and 22 seats with five cars. Some aircraft were pure freighters with only nine seats. One aircraft had 55 high-density seats and room for three cars. BAF was the last operator in Europe of the aircraft, keeping them flying into the 1970s.
  British United Carvairs made an appearance in the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger and bodyguard Oddjob boarded G-ASDC bound for Switzerland while Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce car was being loaded through the Carvair nose. In the 1967 TV series The Prisoner in the episode "The Chimes of Big Ben", the plane is seen being loaded through the nose, then taking off and landing again.
caption: Carvair of Compagnie Air Transport, France, at Manchester Airport in 1967
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