re: How do short range planes get to Asia?

My neighbor and myself sent an airplane to Thailand a couple of years ago in a shipping container.

Military aircraft - most mid air refuel if they aren't the big long range one.

Commercial - they fly light, fill it up with fuel completely, and assemble some of the seating at the destination country. They also often stop in Anchorage and a couple of other places to refuel.

I follow capt bob and it's really interesting. they repossess planes but also move planes that are sold from one company to another that need to be repainted or retrofitted for another use (passenger to cargo, etc). Through watching him i discovered there's an airport in new iberia that they do these retrofits. it's crazy. he'll pick up a plane from some random arse place and fly it over then he lands in the berry and says "ok, lets go get some crawfish..." pretty cool.

and it's not hidden. it's right off hwy 90, just need to look for it. they have an 8300' runway in the middle of a cane field.

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They island hop. The Pacific is littered with airstrips and airports.

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Always just assumed this as well

There was a thread on here a couple of years ago where a poster on here ferried a King Air to Africa. He started intending to cross the Atlantic from Brazil but abandoned that plan. He flew it up the coast and crossed the Northern Atlantic and flew down Europe. I saw on Flight Aware that the plane made it but never a post from the guy.

Wow, this is so cool. Thank you for sharing!!

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Through watching him i discovered there's an airport in new iberia that they do these retrofits. it's crazy. he'll pick up a plane from some random arse place and fly it over then he lands in the berry and says "ok, lets go get some crawfish..." pretty cool.

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Don’t they paint 747s at that airport?

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Neato. I wonder if they offer tours. I’d love to see that in person. Maybe if I bring my kids they’ll let me in for a tour

That was GeauxxTigers23.

They just take off and do a holding pattern while the Earth rotates below them.