Highest airport you’ve landed a Skymaster?
 

What’s the highest elevation airport you’ve landed a Skymaster at? And what type turbo or natural aspirated? My 1967 B model (non turbo) take-off charts stop at 7,500ft. Anyone fly in/out of someplace higher than that?

Telluride - 9069 Feet
7100 foot runway
Normal Aspirated Engine
Pilot and 2 passengers (2 men, 1 woman)
October timeframe - Fall, Windy, Afternoon, and temp was I believe in high 70's.

Had the aircraft configured for 1/3 flaps during first take off attempt. I was running out of runway and was uncomfortable with how I was taking off. Aborted the first attempt.

Tried a second time with no flaps. Was able to take of with about 2/3rds of runway length.

Karl

Well I've landed in Leadville Colorado many times which is the highest airport in the u.s. over 10,000ft.
I own a home in Breckenridge Colorado and we used to have an airport there and it was about 9600 between two mountain ranges.

KSAF - Santa Fe, NM 6348' but the DA was 9600'

Thanks for confirming my suspicions about taking-off with any flaps at higher elevations. Seems to me that flaps are too much drag at high density runways.

Break.

CO_ did you fly a Skymaster in and out of Leadville? If so, were the flaps zero for takeoff?

Since you're only deploy 1/3 flaps I normally do it about 2/3 of the way down the runway depending on AirSpeed and conditions, STOL practice is a good skill to have.

Telluride last week, 11,100' density alt on landing, 10,800' on takeoff. P-model, used less than half the runway on both takeoff and landing. :)