Flying Tiger Line  Canadair CL-44D4-2  N451T                              (c/n  20)

                              

                                       The CL-44 was a freighter derivative of the Bristol Britannia, built at Montreal from a license
                                       granted to the Canadian company in the 1950s.  It was remarkable inasmuch as the entire
                                       aft fuselage swung open, giving easy access to loading large freight items.     In the event,
                                       only 39 were built, thirteen of them (model D4-2) being delivered new to Flying Tiger Line.
                                       N451T was seen at SFO in the early 1960s in the above shot by William T. Larkins.
                                       This aircraft went on to serve with Iceland's Loftleidir as TF-LLJ and then later to a
                                       series of African air cargo companies.  . 
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