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BAe ATP
The BAe ATP was an airliner designed as an evolution of the Avro 748. The fuel crisis and increasing worries about aircraft noise led business planners at British Aerospace to believe that there was a market for a short-range, low-noise, fuel-efficient turboprop aircraft. The airframe of the Avro 748 was redesigned with a lengthened 26.01 m body and a 30.62 m wing span. Minor modifications were made to the nose and tail shapes, as well as smaller windows on a shorter pitch. The twin Rolls-Royce Dart engines were replaced with Pratt & Whitney Canada PW126 fuel efficient engines. A custom designed, slow-turning, six-blade propeller was developed by Hamilton Standard.
The aircraft first flew in August 1986 and entered service with British
Midland in 1988. In total 64 aircraft were assembled at BAe's Woodford
and Prestwick facilities with the manufacture of the airframe and wings
undertaken at Chadderton. Production ended at Prestwick in 1996. The plane
can accommodate between 64 and 72 passengers depending on the seat configuration.
The biggest operators of the aircraft are British Airways CitiExpress
and West Air Sweden. In 2001 the ATP Freighter project allowed six ATPs
to be converted in to cargo aircraft for West Air Sweden. Using a modification
of the Avro 748 freight door, the ATPF can carry 30% more cargo than its
predecessor with a 10% increase in running costs. The ATPF made it first
flight from West Air Sweden's facility in Lidköping on 10 July 2002.
