Short field operations
 

Does anyone know of an aircraft with up to 40 seats that can operate (probably not fully laden) out 1000metres of runway? Something with performance and capacity between a Twotter and a Saab 340 is the expected answer, I haven't found one despite a fair bit of searching.

DHC7 (50 seats) but there ain't many around.

I agree and if someone can find an aircraft bigger than a 340 that can operate out of 1000 metres I'll be a bit suprised:)

DHC7? .....

I think it's the only one but as you say obsolescent and rare

OK then, the earlier versions of the DHC8 ... Are you a bit surprised yet? :)

Now I'm surprised:) I would have expected about 1200 metres for a Dash 8

Junkers Ju52

Only after they stretched the DHC8 did it need more runway, the early DHC8's seated 36 or more and could do it from a 3,000ft runway.

Chevvron is having a laugh I assume, but they did use Herons and Doves into the 1960s as it happens.........

Get on to Air France, one of these would do the job :)

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Turbine powered DC-3?

Don't know if you can get 40 passenger seats in one however.

HS Andover. 40 something pax, a couple still operating in Africa I think.

ATR 42 the -300 operated off Plymouth with reasonable load better than the Dash 8 upto 40 pax to DUB and full load to CWL.

44 passengers, No runway required.Model 234 Chinook

HS Andover C1 is the correct answer. :p Doing STOL (not perf A) with water meth injection we could use 1000 FEET. Anguilla was - if I remember right - about 750 ft of tarmac with a baked mud over-run. I usually stopped on the tarmac full of metropolitan police with baggage and beer to keep them going.
6 degree approach and full reverse before touchdown. :ok:

Hi Jenkins :)
No. Turned on the strip ok.
The narrow one was Barbuda. Just 18 inches outside each mainwheel and a deep shoulder to the runway. Open the back door/ and talk sweetly to the loadmaster. Then, as you know, it was all or nothing reverse to return to the threshold for t/o. Runway was long for us -cannot remember exactly - maybe 2500ft but with the narrow width that produced a very odd approach :eek: feeling much higher than we really were. B

The Antonov An-72/74 would do the job...though it carries more than forty pax. Upper Surface Blowing and the Coanda effect, lovely aeroplane.

Far from requiring "no runway" a laden BV234 actually required more runway than the Dash8 on t/o iirc. Unst could be limiting!

Munster, helicopter performance is not quite as simple as you imagine it to be...