"patrick mitchel" wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"Morgans" wrote in
It can also refill on the ground with a hose and tanker. It can
lift a full load off of a runway, 1200 gallons for a 215, 1400
gallons for a 415. I would have to do some searching to find out
how much runway it would take, but it isn't much.
Do they still make the -215 as the av book shows it having the PW
R2800
recip engines- do they still make those or are they using a reman?
Gotta be a lot more econmical at least from the fuel burn at low
altitudes. Pat




No, they haven't made them since the sixties, at the latest. They'd be low
hours rebuilds.


Bertie