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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. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 489 pixelsFull resolution (1600 Ã— 978 pixel, file size: 82 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ... British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. ... The Avro 748 was a small short-range turboprop airliner designed by Avro in the late 1950s as a replacement for the now-aged DC-3s then in widespread service as feederliners. ... An Airbus A340 airliner operated by Air Jamaica An airliner is a large fixed-wing aircraft with the primary function of transporting paying passengers. ... The Avro 748 was a small short-range turboprop airliner designed by Avro in the late 1950s as a replacement for the now-aged DC-3s then in widespread service as feederliners. ... British Aerospace (BAe) was a UK aircraft manufacturer, now part of BAE Systems. ...

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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 Rolls Royce Dart was a long-lived turboprop engine. ... The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 is a series of 2,000 to 5,000 horsepower (1,492 to 3,730 kW) turboprop engines. ... Hamilton Standard, a famous aircraft propeller part supplier, was founded in 1910 by Thomas F. Hamilton. ...

The aircraft first flew in August 1986 and entered service with British Midland in 1988. bmi is a scheduled airline based in the United Kingdom. ...

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. For the 1930s airline of similar name, see British Airways Ltd. ... West Air Sweden is a cargo airline based in Gothenburg, 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. LidkÃ¶ping is a town in VÃ¤stra GÃ¶taland County, in western Sweden with about 25,000 inhabitants; with the LidkÃ¶ping Municipality having a total of 37,000. ...

In August 2006 a total of 33 ATP aircraft remain in airline service with West Air Sweden (11), Asian Spirit (1), First Flight Couriers (1), Atlantic Airlines (3), Emerald Airways (5), Enimex (1), Magicbird Airlines (2), SATA Air Açores (5) and West Air Luxembourg (5).^[1] West Air Sweden is a cargo airline based in Gothenburg, Sweden. ... Asian Spirit is an airline based in Manila in the Philippines. ... Atlantic Airlines is a cargo airline based in Coventry, United Kingdom. ... Emerald Airways is an airline based in Liverpool, United Kingdom. ... Enimex is an airline based in Tallinn, Estonia. ... SATA Air AÃ§ores is an airline based in Ponta Delgada in the Azores. ...

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