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Top Flight Quad - Ski Butternut, MA

Top Flight Quad CTEC - CLF4 - 1993 Slope Length: 4025 ft Vertical Footage: 940 ft Design Capacity: 2175 riders/hr Design Rope Speed: 500 fpm VTF/H: 2.044e6 Ski Butternut’s Top Flight Quad is the area’s workhorse base-to-summit lift. It was installed in 1993 by CTEC and replaced the area’s first chairlift, a 1963 Carlevaro & Savio double known as Sheave Train. The Top Flight Quad provides access to the highest lift served point at Butternut; it is also the longest lift on the mountain. Top Flight was heavily damaged by an F4 Tornado in May of 1995. Top Flight is unique in that all but one of its towers were reused from its Carlevaro & Savio predecessor. CTEC simply bolted its own crossarms onto the existing lattice towers. This was definitely a cost-effective solution at the time, but I think it will come back to bite them in the future if the original foundations start to have problems. Every sheave on this lift is CTEC’s 400mm size sheave. The drive/tension terminal, located at the bottom, is also unique; it looks to me like an early iteration on CTEC’s Galaxy drive/tension terminal. The return terminal is a simple Orion fixed return. Interestingly, the line gauge seems to be that of a CTEC detachable quad rather than that of a fixed grip. I’m not sure what the reason for the width was, but the width combined with the massive rear leg of the drive terminal might indicate that this lift was designed with the possibility to be upgraded to a detachable quad. Top Flight’s chairs are standard CTEC quad chairs with CTEC fixed grips. Recorded on January 12, 2021.