and six on the ground were killed, with another 12 on the ground injured. The accident at Griffin in the United States in April 1997 involved the fifth production Carvair which suffered catastrophic engine failure during the takeoff run and failed to become properly airborne. The aircraft crashed into a vacant Piggly Wiggly supermarket past the airport perimeter, killing both pilots. Surviving aircraft The 21st and final Carvair built, 9J-PAA, is in South Africa with Phoebus Apollo Aviation. Formerly registered in Zambia, the aircraft is currently on display at Rand Airport, where it sits near other uncommon aircraft such as the Boeing 747SP. Although now removed from the Zambian register, the owner plans to return it to the skies for air shows. The second (N89FA / "Miss 1944", the 9th Carvair) is based in Gainesville, Texas at KGLE Gainesville Municipal Airport, and flies with Gator Global Flying Services on ad hoc cargo charters throughout the United States. Another Carvair (N898AT, the 20th built) had been airworthy, but was written off after crashing while landing on 30 May 2007 at the airstrip at Nixon Fork Mine in Alaska. Former operators Ansett Australia Eastern Provincial Airways Dominicana de Aviación Aviaco SF Air SOACO Transport Aériens Réunis Aer Lingus Alisud Interocean Airways Nationwide Air Phoebus Apollo Aviation International Committee of the Red Cross Tunis Air British United Air Ferries and successor British Air Ferries (BAF) Channel Air Bridge Falcon Airways Specifications Notable appearances in media British United Carvairs made an appearance in the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger and bodyguard Oddjob boarded G-ASDC bound for Switzerland while Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce car was being loaded through the Carvair nose. In the 1967 TV series The Prisoner in the episode "The Chimes of Big Ben", the plane is seen being loaded through the nose, then taking off and landing again. A Carvair serves as Charlie Marshall's plane in the John Le Carre novel The Honourable Schoolboy. See also Notes References (2nd printing) (Airliner World online) External links Operators’ reference drawing Commercial Aircraft of the World Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair Aviation Traders Ltd. The Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair Aviation Traders Carvair DC-4 to Carvair, c/n 42994 history by Gil White ATL.98 Carvair N898AT in final stages of restoration Douglas DC-4-1009, Carvair ATL-98 Registration: N898AT 30 May 2007: Carvair N898AT Wrecked ASN Aviation Safety Database Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair Carvair in Goldfinger Aviation Traders aircraft