Is R12 Freon Allowed on Airliners?

I have a truck up in Kentucky that is low on Freon. I have a few spare
cans here in Texas. Just wondering if I would be allowed to pack a
couple of the small cans of R-12 in either my airline carryon or
checked baggage. Is the stuff flamable?

> wrote in message
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> I have a truck up in Kentucky that is low on Freon. I have a few spare
> cans here in Texas. Just wondering if I would be allowed to pack a
> couple of the small cans of R-12 in either my airline carryon or
> checked baggage. Is the stuff flamable?

No, it is not flammable. But it is considered to be a compressed gas, or
nonpersonal aerosol,
and is forbidden.

writes in article . com> dated 18 Jul 2005 11:42:33 -0700:
>I have a truck up in Kentucky that is low on Freon. I have a few spare
>cans here in Texas. Just wondering if I would be allowed to pack a
>couple of the small cans of R-12 in either my airline carryon or
>checked baggage. Is the stuff flamable?

The primary risk of taking compressed gas on an airplane is not
flammability; it's air displacement. Commercial airline cabins are
pressurized at much lower than standard atmospheric pressure, so
there is more stress on your container than it was designed for, and
if it does spring a leak, it displaces more of your precious air than
it would on the ground.

Notice that E-bay sellers do not offer air shipping on R-12.

Ship the stuff UPS-ground; it doesn't cost much.

--Keith Lewis klewis {at} mitre.org
The above may not (yet) represent the opinions of my employer.

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 wrote:

> I have a truck up in Kentucky that is low on Freon. I have a few spare
> cans here in Texas. Just wondering if I would be allowed to pack a
> couple of the small cans of R-12 in either my airline carryon or checked
> baggage. Is the stuff flamable?

It's not inflammable, but it is a compressed gas. Why don't you call the
airline you intend to patronize and ask them?

"Daniel J. Stern" > wrote in message
n.umich.edu...
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 wrote:
>
> > I have a truck up in Kentucky that is low on Freon. I have a few spare
> > cans here in Texas. Just wondering if I would be allowed to pack a
> > couple of the small cans of R-12 in either my airline carryon or checked
> > baggage. Is the stuff flamable?
>
> It's not inflammable, but it is a compressed gas. Why don't you call the
> airline you intend to patronize and ask them?

That is a Transportation Security Administration rule, not an airline
option.

wrote:
> I have a truck up in Kentucky that is low on Freon. I have a few spare
> cans here in Texas. Just wondering if I would be allowed to pack a
> couple of the small cans of R-12 in either my airline carryon or
> checked baggage. Is the stuff flamable?
>

I very much doubt they would allow you on with any type of pressurized
container. After the Valuejet disaster the airlines have been very
strict. They won't even let you on with an empty non-pressurized fuel
container for campers white gas if it has *ever* had fuel in it. They
won't even take one full of water.

Ground is the only way to go.

JP

--
JP White