Collapsible Aircraft and Helicopter Bladder Ferry Tanks

Helicopter Ferry Tank Drum 66

HELI 21 Gallons – 80LT

HELI 21 fit most light helicopters including Bell 206 – MD 500 – R44 etc. These aircraft flexible tanks can be set up on their edge in MD 500, fuel will self-drain into main tank. In R44 a transfer pump will be needed to lift the fuel to Auxiliary tank. If tank is to be used as Ferry Tank for in-flight refueling, consult your Maintenance Authority for advice on approved scheme installation details. Empty HELI 21 folds up compact. A though tank that will last many years as a range extender or remote area operations add on tank.

SOME SAY OUR ENGINEERING IS EXCESSIVE

HELI RAMP 58 Gallons – 220LT

Australian Made

Full Tank: Width 695mm (27.5″) x 900mm Long (35.5″) x 450mm Height (18″)Empty Weight 5.3kg (11.7 lbs)
Aircraft bladder tanks designed for easy access on ramp fitted aircraft. Construction Extra Grade fabric suit best Jet A. Filler hose can be extended to meet Weight & Balance. Normal loading and Unusable Fuel requirements apply unless otherwise approved.

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  BO-105 fitted with HELI RAMP 58
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  Easy fit EC135

Cushion 37 – 37 Gallons / 140LT

37 Gall. 140Lt.
Width: 750mm – 29.5″ inc. seams
Length: 1500mm – 59″ inc. seams
Designed specially to suit lockers of larger twins as Seneca – Baron – Duke – Cessna 404 etc.
Most times used with large FERRY TANK in the main cabin to correct weight & balance.
(NOT well suited across main cabin of light aircraft. Refer to HELI 21 or Drum 66)
NORMAL loading and Unusable Fuel requirements apply unless otherwise approved.

Cabin Collapsible Drum Fuel Tank for Cabin Aircraft

Aisle Drum 105 Gallons / 400LT & 210 Galllons / 800LT

Designed for aisle fit in cabin class aircraft, bottom outlet will work with cabin pressure without transfer pump in most installations. Construction – Extra grade fabric used most times best suited for Jet A.
Unique angled tie downs secure bladder tanks for airplanes to fwd 9G plus force safely. Weight & Balance is easily met with various loading configurations – Passenger seats can stay in cabin – Pack up compact empty. The most convenient ferry tank in existence. NORMAL loading and Unusable Fuel requirements apply unless otherwise approved.

Collapsible Drum Fuel Tank for small Aircraft

Crash Resistant – No other comes even close

Length: 1100mm – 43”
Width: 750mm – 29.5”
Height Full: 700mm – 27.5”
Empty weight 5.1kg – 11.2lbs (standard fabric)
Full Weight 277.2kg – 611lbs
Made originally for Cessna 172 Atlantic crossing ferry flights but fits virtually all 4 to 6 place aircraft cabins, wedges in securely. Shape and dimensions of these collapsible bladder tanks make it an easy task to do Weight & Balance.
Also suited to helicopter ferry flights bottom outlet gravity drain to belly tanks and two top tie downs with side ties restrains up to 25 g force. Tough multi task ferry tank.

Ferry 160 – 238 – 300 – 400 – 500 – 529 Gallons
Collapsible Drum Fuel Tank for all Aircraft

SAVE FUEL – SAFER FUEL

Turtle Pac Ferry Tanks allow flying the shortest route to your destination avoiding the extra miles and cost caused by diverting for refueling stops, and allow for the use of remote alternate landing sites.
A ferry Tank is usually fitted in the space created by the removal of the passenger seats. NO support box is required. Tank’s soft structure will not damage the plane’s interior as metal tanks and their associated fitting process often do.
Save considerable time and cost by the fast & easy fitting of Turtle Pac tanks.
Safety is improved over metal tanks, as tank’s fabric collapses with the fuel level.
No air space means no consideration, no water to contaminate fuel, and no vapour space; vastly reducing the chances of engine failure, or explosion even in the case of fire.
Folded up tanks take little space and can be carried as luggage on commercial flights. Turtle Pac tanks are legal to use as Ferry Tanks in most countries including Australia, U.S.A and Canada. Aircraft can operates under Ferry Flight permit with pilot & navigator only. Most transpacific ferry flights from U.S to Australia use Turtle Pac Ferry Tank since early 1990’s, from Cessna 172 to Saab 340. Boeing 727 cargo planes also rely on our tanks to extend their range.
SO CAN YOU!

Collapsible Ferry Fuel Tank for all Aircraft

EASY TO FIT – EASY TO FILL
SAVE FITTING TIME – SAVE INTERIOR DAMAGE

TURTLE PAC IS TRUSTED BECAUSE…

Turtle-Pac pioneered in the mid 1980s, the unique skill and technology used today. We haven’t stopped pioneering since, an ongoing R&D program ensures our leading edge is maintained. Every aspect of manufacture is geared towards exceptional reliability. New product samples are destruction tested and trialled in the field in the most arduous conditions before release into the market. The knowledge gained is applied throughout our production, to your benefit. Every aircraft tank is pressure tested, and seams are foam tested and inspected. Only after all tests and inspections are passed satisfactorily, is the Tank issued a Quality Assurance and Acceptance Certificate.

TURTLE-PAC’S FABRICS

STANDARD GRADE fabrics are soft fabrics, easy to fold, compact and lightweight. Suitable for Avgas, and chosen by some users for Kerosene (jet fuel) as well, due to it’s user-friendly characteristics up to 529 gallons. However, STANDARD GRADE is not recommended for kerosene.
EXTRA GRADE fabrics are heavy duty. Suitable for Avgas and Kerosene (jet fuel). Recommended to users of jet fuel and others operating in harsh environments. Compared to Standard Grade: Not as soft and user friendly and will take up about 30% more space folded and about 30% heavier.

CONSTRUCTION

Electro Fuse Welding, using precision dies, electronically fuses all seams. The seam’s strength equals the fabric strength, and is maintenance free. No glue or chemical bonding is used, as those techniques are prone to leaks.

TANKS PRESSURE RESISTANCE

Standard Grade fabric tanks are tested to 5 psi during quality control tests. (Aluminium ferry tanks only tested to 3.5 psi). Standard Grade fabric Turtle-Pac Ferry Tanks will exceed the pressure resistance of aluminium ferry tanks typically by 300%.

CRASH RESISTANCE

Turtle-Pac tanks are a collapsible structure and do not require ventilation; no vapours are contained in the tank to cause an explosion during crash or fire. Being a soft structure, the tank can and will alter shape under high “G” loads, which increases its puncture and burst resistance. Furthermore, the tanks self-wedge into the fuselage, gripping by friction. This reduces the load on the tie points considerably. Turtle-Pac Ferry Tanks have been used since 1991 and during this period not a single tank has failed, even though some aircraft made forced landings (due to causes not related to our tank!).
This combination of factors adds up to a far safer tank than aluminium ferry tanks.

LIFE EXPECTANCY

Some of our tanks have been used successfully with Avgas for just over 10 years now. However, Kerosene use in Standard Grade fabric can reduce this period by some years.

DRUM 33 Gallons – 125LT

Designed to sit on a single seat of any aircraft.
One fit all, seat fuel tank of 25 and 33 gal. capacity models.
The collapsible cylinder shaped tank sit as a person on the seat and secured by the aircraft’s passenger seat belt. Shoulder or lap belt suitable.
Filled via a 2″ filler on lay flat hose that reaches outside the fuselage for filling and tucks back into cabin for flight. Outlet on bottom at back of seat is AN-6 3/8″.
Outlet is connected to a 12 V. or 24 V. inline transfer pump kit fitted with cigarette lighter plug for power source.
The small ferry tank system fitted into any aircraft, helicopter or fixed wing in minutes. Crew easily remove for storage out of use.
The tank is packed up in a storage valise supplied.

DRUM 33 with Pump Kit
Pump Kit: 1.7kg 3.8lbs

FOR THE PILOT WHO WANTS TO FLY FURTHER

DRUM 33 empty base spread out on seat for filling | DRUM 33 part full, seat belt secured | Drum 33 outlet

Normal loading and Unusable Fuel requirements apply unless otherwise approved.

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  Turtle Pac Helicopter
  Sling in use
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  10m 33ft lift filled
  with 500lt (132 gallons) of water
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  Drop test!
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  No Damage!
  22tons of force as
  the tank hits the ground

Pacific Ocean Ferry Crossing
Collapsible Drum Fuel Tank for all Aircraft

NEW FILLER CAP FOR 2” FILLERS

Fitted to:

BIG-BUDDY – HELI 21 – CUSHION 37 – DRUM 25- 33 – HELI RAMP 58 – DRUM 66
– FERRY 100
Aluminum chromed finished for all fuels. Light weight and robust.
CAMLOCK cap works with Optional ANTI SPLASH FUNNEL. Filling easier and cleaner than previous AERO 400 cap fitted to tanks on website.
Photographed AERO 400 cap with products available on special request.

Anti Splash Funnel

Funnel body flexible plastic.
300 mm 12” long x ø 100 mm 4”

CLEAN FILLING !

FUNNEL TO USE
Insert vent hose trimmed to correct length into tanks filler hose.
End of vent hose just to reach inside tank – + 10 mm.
Connect Camlock to empty tank and lift up hose with funnel.
Use lift line to hold funnel up.
Start filling and keep speed of filling moderate therefore not over fill funnel.
Top of funnel curved surface will stop splash but not over filling…

OPTIONAL FERRY TANK 90 DEGRES ANGLE ELBOW

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  Highlights of Turtle-Pac History

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Invented For The Task:

Purpose Designed to be used in adverse conditions

Tested To Destruction:

Every New product blown up or drop tested to prove structural
integrity exceeds real life use forces in strom or crash conditions

Real life Tests:

All new fuel tanks crossing oceans by sea or air is the norm
Lift bags taken inder water
Nothing is released till perfected at what ever R. & D. cost

Perfected Product:

“The sure buy” offered to the market
Do the task better than any thing else in the market
Best value for what it is

Sure Delivery:

Inspected Quality assurance exceeds ISO standards
Product sent direct from turtle-pac on time!
I make sure of all that – Laszlo Torok Director/Founder

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Highlights of Turtle-Pac History

1984 – CYCLONE LANCE:

YACHT “HUSSAR” CAPSIZED AND SEVERLY DAMAGED OFF THE EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA. SEARCH AIRCRAFT FAILED TO LOCATE DISTRESSED YACHT. SKIPPER LASZLO TOROK AND KEITH DE JONG MANAGED TO STAY AFLOAT AND REACH SHORE UNAIDED AFTER 4 DAYS OF BATTLING THE STORM.

1985 – YACHT FLOTATION SYSTEM:

WORLD’S FIRST INFLATABLE YACHT FLOATATION SYSTEM INVENTED AND LAUNCHED IN SYDNEY BY LASZLO TOROK. “ TO MAKE THE OCEAN A SAFER PLACE”

1987 – ELECTRO FUSE :

DECISIVE BREAK THROUGHT IN PRECISION SEAM SEALING TECHNOLOGY FOR INFLATABLES BY INVENTIVE AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS AND LASZLO TOROK

1987 – ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY’S HELICOPTER FLOATATION :

WARDED CONTRACT TO SUPPLY FIRST EVER ELECTRO FUSE WELDED SEAM RESCUE LIFT BAGS – FIRST EVER FITTED WITH DIVING CYLINDERS. THE SYSTEM WAS IN HOUSE DESIGNED AND TESTED SIMILAR TO A2500 MODEL.

1989 – U.S. NAVY:

BUILD MAMMUTH SIZE 35 TONNE LIFT BAG FOR U.S. NAVAL SYSTEM COMMAND

1990 – BATTLEFIELD DECOYS:

EFFECTIVE FULL SIZE MODULAR INFLATABLE DECOYS DEVELOPED FOR BATTLE FIELD, USED BY A FIRST GULF WAR MILITARY FORCE

1991 – COLLAPSIBLE AIRCRAFT FERRY TANKS:

DEVELOPED USING ELECTRO FUSE SEAMS AND MULTI LAYERED P.U. FABRICS FAR EXCEEDING CRASH RESISTANCE OF ANY THING ELSE MADE PREVIOUSLY BY DATED RUBBER TECHNOLOGY

1995-1999 – AROUND THE WORLD!:

“OCEAN STRIDER” SKIPPERED BY LASZLO TOROK – CREW ITSUKO TAKAHASHI, CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE WORLD. ON VOYAGE USED TURTLE-PAC PRODUCTS TO DEMONSTRATE DURABILITY IN THE HARSH CONDITIONS. LIFE RAFT WAS NOT CARRIED BUT RELIED ON TURTLE-PAC YACHT FLOTATION SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCY.

2000 – SUPER DECK TANKS:

PROVEN AROUND THE WORLD ON “OCEAN STRIDER”. TIME ARRIVED TO INTRODUCE A RANGE OF TANKS FOR OTHER SAILORS USE.

2003-BARRACUDA – TANKS:

DEVELOPED FLEXIBLE TANKS FIRST TIME EVER ABLE TO BE BENT AND KINKED AND USED IN CAMOUFLAGE POSITIONS BY MILITARY AND OTHERS. BUILT FOR THE MOST DEMANDING ENVIROMENTS.

2005 – TURTLE-BUDDY:

WORLD’S FIRST FLEXIBLE “ONE SIZE FITS ALL, STRAP IN THE SEAT” AIRCRAFT FUEL TANK DEVELOPED FOR SPORT AND BUSH AIRCRAFT. INTRODUCED AT OSHKOSH.

2008- AIRCARGO TANKS:

DOUBLE SKIN “TANK IN A TANK” PIONEERED. CRASH RESISTANCE EXCEEDS MIL-D-23119G STANDARD. COST OF AIRCRAFT OPERATION REDUCED BY UP TO 70%.

2010 – Collision Bandage :

The first significant improvement in hull damage containment for 518 years.

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