Basler Turbo BT-67

The Basler Turbo Conversions BT-67 is a remanufactured C-47 aircraft made by the Basler Turbo Conversions LLC company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. The C-47 remanufacturing into a Basler Turbo BT-67 includes a complete airframe overhaul, wing aerodynamic improvements, fuselage and wing structural strengthening, and the installation of new aircraft systems. All changes are covered by FAA STC certifications under extensive testing to FAR Part 25.
Basler Turbo Conversions LLC was formed in 1988 by Warren Basler. It is a sister company to Basler Flight Service, which was organized in 1957.
The first Basler Turbo BT-67 flew in 1990 with a new Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67R turboprop engines and Hartzell five-blade metal propellers. The base C-47 fuselage was lengthened by 40-inch plug forward of the wing.
It is used by the following organizations
Air Forces:
Colombian Air Force
Royal Thai Air Force
El Salvadoran Air Force
Mauritania Air Force
Mali Air Force
Guatemalan Air Force
Colombian National Police
Survey Companies:
Alfred Wegener Institute
Bell Geospace
Spectrem Air Surveys
ALCI Aviation
Kenn Borek Air
CGG Geophysical Survey
Polar Research Institute of China
Airtec
Others:
Airborne Support
Aero Contractors
Cargo North

It was also used by:
US Air Force
US Department of State
US Forest Service
Bolivia Air Force
Mauritania’s air force may acquire a Basler Turbo BT-67 for the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) role via Foreign Military Sales. In 2014, the Mauritanian Islamic Air Force (FAIM) upgraded its only BT-67 with an electro-optical (EO) turret and sensor equipment that imagery directly to special mobile phones.
Last July 2018, two Basler Turbo BT-67 gunships, and two Basler Turbo BT-67 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) aircraft was offered by Basler Turbo Conversions to the Philippine Air Force. The Basler Turbo BT-67 Gunship was formerly offered in late 2016, but the offer was not taken up at that time.

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