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I have complied a handy list of all airliners in Wesworld that have been built since the 1930s and that are available either through new-build or second-hand purchase. Hopefully folks wanting new airliners can now find what they want more easily.
For any additions or corrections please PM me.


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Classifications

Feederliners - also including light airliners for domestic routes
Medium-range airliners - also inclduing medium-capacity and cargo aircraft
Long-range airliners
Very-long range airliners
Flying Boats

Feederliners

Type: Airspeed AS.6 Envoy
Classification: feederliner/ short-range airliner
Length: 10.52 m (34 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 15.95 m (52 ft 4 in)
Height: 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 31.49 m² (339 ft²)
Empty weight: 1840 kg (4,057 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 2858 kg (6,300 lb)
Powerplant: (AS.6) two 200hp Wolseley AR.9 radials; (AS.6A) two 240hp Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IVC radials; (AS.6D) two 350hp Wright R-760-E2 Whirlwind 7 radials; (AS.6E) two Walter Castor; (AS.6G) two 250hp Wolseley Scorpio I radials; (AS.6H) two 225hp Wolseley Aries III radials; (AS.6J) two 350hp Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah IX radials
Maximum speed: (AS.6J) 338 km/h (210 mph) at 2225 m (7,300 ft)
Cruising Speed: 290 km/h (180 mph) at 3050 m (10,000 ft)
Range: 1046 km (650 miles)
Service ceiling: 6860 m (22,500 ft)
Passengers: 6 seated two abreast
Crew: one pilot
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Numerous small airlines including Ansett Airlines, BEA (11), CSA, North Eastern Airlines (2), Private Charter Ltd (2) and the RAF
Availability: No longer in production. Several on second-hand market.
Notes: First flown June 1931. Series I had no flaps, Series II had split flaps and Series III had other minor improvements. The AS.6 is the basis of the AS.10 Oxford crew trainer and in turn the AS.10 has been made into a six-seat personnel transport for the RAF, the AS.7 Consul with a performance generally similar to the AS.6 except for slightly more range, 1127 km (700 miles). The AS.8 Victory was a version of the AS.6 built to order for Captain T. Neville Stack and Sidney Lewis Turner, to compete in the England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race.

Type: Avro 652
Classification: feederliner
Length: 12.88 m (42 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 17.2 m (56 ft 5 in)
Height: 3.99 m (13 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 38.09 m² (410 ft²)
Empty weight: 2438 kg (5,375 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 3629 kg (8,000 lb)
Powerplant: (Avro 652) two 350hp Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah IX radials; (652C) two 395hp Cheetah XIX radials; (652D) two Armstrong Siddeley 420hp Cheetah XV radials
Maximum speed: (Avro 652) 303 km/h (188 mph) at 2135 m (7,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 254 km/k (158 mph)
Range: 1271 km (790 miles)
Service ceiling: 5790 m (19,000 ft)
Passengers: 5/6 seated two abreast with a toilet aft
Crew: one pilot
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: BEA (24 D), Persian Airways (6 A), Railway Air Services Ltd (14 C, 6 D), West Coast Air Services Ltd (6 D)
Availability: The 652D is still in production. Several 652C on second-hand market.
Notes: The original Avro 652 was designed for Imperial Airways as a small four-seat monoplane airliner for colonial use and only four were in 1934 and six were built in 1936 for Persia. In 1938 the 652C was introduced with a new moulded plywood fuselage with a higher roofline and five oval windows on each side. The 652D has an all-metal wing and is still in production. The 652A is the Anson maritime reconnaissance bomber for the RAF.

Type: Avro 700 Ashton
Classification: short-range airliner
Length: 15.33 (50 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: (18.37 m (60 ft 3in)
All-Up weight: 6803 kg (15,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 475hp Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah XX radials or two 540hp Alvis Leonides III radials
Maximum speed: 378 km/h (235 mph)
Range: 1287 km (800 miles)
Service ceiling: 7162 m (23,500 ft)
Passengers: 12 seated two abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: none yet
Availability: To enter production late 1943.
Notes: This is a private venture by Avro as a replacement for the Avro 652 which should fly during early 1943. The structure will be all-metal and a tricycle undercarriage will also be fitted.

Type: Beech Model 18S
Classification: feederliner
Length: 10.41 (34 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 14.53 m (47 ft 8 in)
Height: 2.95 m (9 ft 8 in)
Wing area: 32.42 m² (349 ft²)
Empty weight: 2801 kg (6,175 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 3959 kg (8,727 lb)
Powerplant: two 450hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 radials
Maximum speed: 346 km/h (215 mph)
Range: 1368 km (850 miles)
Service ceiling: 6095 m (20,000 ft)
Passengers: 6 seated two abreast with toilet aft
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: several airlines and private operators and the USAAF and USN
Availability: Still in production. Plenty of choice on second-hand market.
Notes: the prototype Model 18 first flew in 1934; the Model 18D of 1936 was powered by 330hp Jacobs L-6 engines. The Model 18S was introduced in 1938. Also built as the C-45 utility transport and AT-7 navigation trainer for the USAAF and the SNB-2 navigation trainer and JRB-1 transport for the USN.

Type: Boeing Model 247
Classification: light airliner
Length: 15.72 m (51 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 22.56 m (74 ft)
Wing area: 77.66 m² (836 ft²)
Max takeoff weight: 6192 kg (13,350 lb)
Powerplant: two 550hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp S1H-1G radials
Cruising Speed: 304 km/h (189 mph)
Range: 1199 km (745 miles)
Service ceiling: 7740 m (25,400 ft)
Passengers: 10 seated two abreast, facilities include toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: up to 181 kg (400lb) of baggage and mail
Operators: several airlines across the world
Availability: No longer in production. Several on second-hand market.
Notes: the Model 247 was one of the first modern monoplane airliners with retractable undercarriage in the world. From the 63rd production aircraft all were completed as 247D standard with backward-sloping windscreens and NACA cowlings.

Type: Constelación T1C Twin Condor
Classification: utility aircraft/ feederliner
Length: 14.32 m (47 ft)
Wingspan: 17.98 m (59 ft)
Height: 4.87 m (16 ft)
Wing area: 38.09m² (410 ft²)
Empty weight: 2503 kg (5,520 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 5329 kg (11,750 lb)
Powerplant: two 200hp de Havilland/ Orenda Gipsy Six inlines
Maximum speed: 276 km/h (172 mph)
Range: 1300 km (810 miles)
Service ceiling: 5486 m (18,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 2.13 m/s (7 ft/s)
Passengers: 18 seated three abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: one/ two flight crew
Cargo: baggage, the cabin can be used to carry freight with a cargo door in the rear portside
Operators: several small airlines, LAN, Fuerza Aérea de Chile and the Chilean Department of Geosurvey
Availability: The Serie-100/200/300 are no longer in production. Few on second-hand market yet.
Notes: the Condor high-winged aircraft designed for use off extremely short or rough airfields, and in all weather conditions. The Condor has become one of the most successful planes ever built in Chile and has been built in several series. The initial Serie-100 was built between 1936-1939; the improved Serie-200 was in production from 1937-1941. The Serie-300 introduced in 1940 has new flaps, improved fuselage and new flight controls. For the new Serie-400 see entry below.

Type: Constelación T1C Twin Condor Serie-400
Classification: utility aircraft/ feederliner
Length: 15.84 m (52 ft)
Wingspan: 19.81 m (65 ft)
Height: 5.33 m (17.5 ft)
Wing area: 39.20m² (422 ft²)
Empty weight: 2948 kg (6,500 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 5329 kg (11,750 lb)
Powerplant: two 715hp FMA RR-14-2-B radials
Maximum speed: 333 km/h (207 mph)
Range: 1448 km (900 miles)
Service ceiling: 7500 m (24,600 ft)
Rate of climb: 2.29 m/s (7.5 ft/s)
Passengers: 20 seated four abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew, one optional cabin crew
Cargo: baggage, the cabin can be used to carry freight with a cargo door in the rear portside
Operators: several small airlines, Institut Géographique National, LAN and the Fuerza Aerea Argentina
Availability: In production.
Notes: the Serie-400 has an all-metal fuselage and new engines. The Serie-410 with lengthened wings and 720hp Clerget 14F diesel radials has been developed for survey work in French Africa and is known as the "African Condor".

Type: Constelación T3C Condor Commander (Super Two-Nine)
Classification: utility aircraft/ feederliner
Length: 12.85 m (42 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 15.85 m (52 ft)
Height: 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 24 m² (258 ft²)
Empty weight: 2480 kg (5,467 pounds)
Max Takeoff weight: 3425 kg (7,551 pounds)
Powerplant: two 450hp inline engines
Maximum speed: 370 km/h (230 mph)
Cruising speed: 340 km/h (211 mph)
Max Range: 1500 km (932 miles)
Service ceiling: 7500 meters / 24,600 feet
Rate of climb: 6.7 m/s (22 ft/s)
Passengers: 6 seated two abreast or 9 seated three abreast
Crew: 2 flight crew
Cargo: baggage, the main cabin can be used to carry freight
Operators: none yet
Availability: to enter production during 1943/44.
Notes: a smaller variant of the Constelación Twin Condor, the prototype should fly during late 1942 or 1943. It is based on the Twin Condor but is smaller with retractable tricycle landing gear and is aimed at the utility market.

Type: de Havilland D.H.84 Dragon
Classification: light airliner
Length: 10.52 m (34 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 14.43 m (47 ft 4 in)
Height: 3.07 m (10 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 34.9 m² (376 ft²)
Empty weight: 1045 kg (2,300 lb)
Loaded weight: 1909 kg (4,200 lb)
Powerplant: two 130hp de Havilland Gipsy Major inlines
Maximum speed: 206 km/h (128 mph)
Cruising Speed: 167 km/h (109 mph)
Range: 833 km (545 miles)
Service ceiling: 3800 m (12,500 ft)
Passengers: 5/6 seated on individual seats with an optional toilet aft
Crew: one pilot
Cargo: baggage only
Availability: No longer in production. Plenty of choice on the second-hand market.
Operators: numerous airlines including; BEA (3), Air Malta (2), Burma and Malaya Air Services Ltd (2), Isle of Man Air Services Ltd (1), Msir Airwork S.A.E. (4), Palestine Airways (2) and Scottish Airways Ltd (5) and private operators and governmental organisations
Notes: this highly successful feederliner had been in production since 1931 and over 100 have now been built and exported aboard.

Type: de Havilland D.H.86 Dragon Four
Classification: light airliner
Length: 14.1 m (46 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 19.7 m (64 ft 6 in)
Height: 4 m (13 ft 3 in)
Wing area: 59.3 m² (638 ft²)
Empty weight: 2830 kg (6,250 lb)
Loaded weight: 4650 kg (10,250 lb)
Powerplant: four 200hp de Havilland Gipsy Six inlines
Maximum speed: 267 km/h (166 mph)
Range: 1200 km (748 miles)
Service ceiling: 5300 m (17,400 ft)
Passengers: 10/12 seated two abreast with an optional toilet aft
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Availability: No longer in production. Several on second-hand market.
Operators: numerous airlines including; BEA (6 operated as mail planes), BOAC (6), Burma and Malaya Air Services Ltd (3), Elder Colonial Airways (2 on loan from BOAC), Railway Air Services Ltd (6) and West Coast Air Services Ltd (1).
Notes: developed for a government specification for an airliner for long-distance flights over water and tropical conditions so safety was a priority. It first flew in early 1934. Imperial Airways brought ten in early 1935.

Type: de Havilland D.H.89 Dragon Rapide/ Dragon Six
Classification: light airliner
Length: 10.52 m (34 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 14.63 m (48 ft)
Height: 3.12 m (10 ft 3 in)
Wing area: 31.59 m² (340 ft²)
Empty weight: 1465 kg (3,230 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 2945 kg (5,500 lb)
Powerplant: two 200hp de Havilland Gipsy Queen inlines
Maximum speed: 253 km/h (157 mph) at 305 m (1,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 212 km/h (132 mph)
Range: 917 km (570 miles)
Service ceiling: 5943 m (19,500 ft)
Passengers: 5/6 seated on individual seats with an optional toilet aft
Crew: one pilot
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: numerous airlines including; BEA (29), Allied Airways (Gandar Dower) Ltd (2), Austin Airways (2), British Guiana Airways Ltd (1), Burma and Malaya Air Services Ltd (1), Canadian Pacific Airlines Ltd (10), Channel Island Airways Ltd (4), Great Western & Southern Airlines Ltd (1), Isle of Man Air Services Ltd (6), Kenyan Air Services (5), Maritime Central Airways Ltd (1), Msir Airwork S.A.E. (5), Palestine Airways (5), Scottish Airways Ltd (4) and West Coast Air Services Ltd (4)
Availability: Still in limited production. Plenty of choice on the second-hand market.
Notes: First flown in 1931 as a Gipsy Six powered DH.84 Dragon. From March 1934 trailing-edge flaps were fitted to the lower wings as the DH.89A. Also developed into the Dominie radio trainer for the RAF and the basic DH.89 is used by air forces and governmental organisations across the world as a transport aircraft. Still in limited production and is also built by de Havilland Canada as the DHC.89.

Type: de Havilland D.H.90 Dragonfly
Classification: light luxury tourer/ feederliner
Length: 9.65m (31 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: 13.11 m (43 ft)
Height: 2.79 m (9 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 2.78 m² (256 ft²)
Empty weight: 1134 kg (2,500 lb)
Maximum takeoff weight: 1814 kg (4,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 130/142hp de Havilland Gipsy Major inlines
Maximum speed: 232 km/h (144 mph)
Range: 1000 km (625 miles), 1440 km (990 miles) with a 25 gallon extra tank in the cabin
Service ceiling: 5515 m (18,100 ft)
Passengers: 4 seated two abreast with an optional toilet aft
Crew: one pilot
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: numerous airlines and private operators including; Kenyan Air Services (1), Msir Airwork S.A.E. (1) and Palestine Airways (1).
Availability: Still in production. Several on second-hand market.
Notes: the first was delivered in 1933, there is also a seaplane version with aluminium floats, strengthened attachment points, an extra cabin door and wing walkway which increased the empty weight to 1410 kg (3,110 lb) and lower maximum speed to 200 km/h (125 mph).

Type: De Havilland D.H.104 Dove
Classification: feederliner and executive aircraft
Length: 11.96 m (39 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 17.40 m (57 ft)
Height: 4.06 m(13 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 31.1 m² (335 sq ft²)
Empty weight: 2869 kg (6,325 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 4060 kg (8,950 lb)
Powerplant: two 330hp de Havilland Gipsy Queen 71
Maximum speed: 346 km/h (215 mph)
Range: 1303 km (810 miles)
Service ceiling: 6553 m (21,500 ft)
Passengers: 8 seated two abreast, removal of rear toilet and baggage hold allows room for 11 passengers
Crew: 2 flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: none yet
Notes: designed as a feederliner and executive aircraft and for use from remote and rough strips. All-metal construction, first flight planned for September 1942.

Type: EMBRAER CT-1 Potro
Classification: utility transport/ feederliner
Length: 12.4 m (40 ft 8 in)
Wingspan:
Upper wing: 18.2 m (59 ft 8 in)
Lower wing: 14.2 m (46 ft 9 in)
Height: 4.1 m (13 ft)
Wing area: 71.52 m² (769.8 ft²)
Empty weight: 3000 kg (7,300 lb)
Loaded weight: 5500 kg (12,000 lb)
Useful load: 2140 kg (4,700 lb)
Powerplant: one 1,000hp Gnome-Rhone GR14M radial
Maximum speed: 258 km/h (160 mph)
Cruise speed: 190 km/h (120 mph)
Range: 845 km (525 miles)
Service ceiling: 4500 m (14,750 ft)
Rate of climb: 3.5 m/s (700 ft/min)
Passengers: 12 seated two/ three abreast with a toilet aft
Crew: one/ two flight crew
Cargo: the cabin can be configured for the carriage of freight; a cargo door is fitted as standard
Operators: none yet
Availability: To enter production in early 1943.
Notes: EMBRAER plans to fly a prototype of this rugged biplane design with fixed undercarriage during mid to late 1942 with production beginning in early 1943.

Type: FMA I.Ae 5
Classification: light airliner
Length: 10.9 m (11 ft 9 in)
Wingspan: 1702 m (18 ft 8 in)
Height: 2.8 m (3 ft)
Wing area: 35 m² (269 ft²)
Empty weight: 2,120 kg (4,670 lb)
Gross weight: 3,500 kg (7,710 lb)
Powerplant: one 715hp Wright SGR-1820-F3 radial
Maximum speed: 285 km/h (177 mph)
Range: 727 km (450 miles)
Service ceiling: 6,000 m (19,685 ft)
Rate of climb: 5.5 m/s (1,100 ft/min)
Time to 5000m (16,400ft): 37 minutes
Passengers: 5 passengers in individual seats
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Aeravias Argentinas S.A (16), Lineas Aereas Noreste (3), Lineas Aereas Suroeste (5)
Availability: No longer in production. None on second-hand market.
Notes: this is the airliner version of the M.B.2 bomber for internal routes with rough field performance. Production has ended but recently eight more have been produced by converting M.B.2 bombers.

Gwangju Aircraft Industries G-10S
Classification: light airliner
Length: 14.78 m (48 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 18 m (59 ft)
Empty weight: 3910 kg (8,620 lb)
Loaded weight: 5400 kg (11,904 lb)
Powerplant: one 1,640hp radial
Maximum speed: 415 km/h (257 mph)
Range: 3000 km (1,864 miles)
Service ceiling: 6000 m (19,685 ft)
Passengers: 7 seated two abreast (5 seats in European export model)
Crew: one pilot
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Chosen air force and airline
Availability: In production.
Notes: a fast single-engined low-wing monoplane based on the design of Heinkel He-70 and Junkers Ju-160. The G-10S is the 1941 Model of the original G-10. The pilot sits in a fighter style cockpit with canopy and the passengers are in the main cabin with a door on the rear port side.

Type: Ikarus IK-4 Sjevernjaca
Classification: light airliner
Length: 13.8 m (45 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 18.4 m (60 ft 3 in)
Height: 3.95 m (12 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 41.8 m² (450 ft²)
Empty weight: 3600 kg (7,936 lb)
Loaded weight: 5500 kg (12,125 lb)
Powerplant: two Racovica-built 600hp Pratt and Whitney R-1340-AN1 radials
Maximum speed: 340 km/h (211 mph)
Range: 1000 km (621 miles)
Service ceiling: 5900 m (19,356 ft)
Passengers: 10 seated two abreast
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: JAT
Availability: In production.
Notes: this is the airliner/ transport variant of the Sjevernjaca aircrew trainer developed for the Yugoslavian Air Force. The prototype first flew in the spring of 1941 and production began the same year.

Type: Junkers Ju86
Classification: light airliner
Length: 17.5 m (57 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 22.5 m (73 ft 8 in)
Height: 4.8 m (15ft 7 in)
Wing area: 82 m² (882 ft²)
Empty weight: 5070 kg (11,177 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 8000 kg (17,636 lb)
Powerplant: two 1000hp Brandenburgische Motorenwerke Fafnir 323A radials
Maximum speed: 400 km/h (248 mph) at 3000 m (9,842 ft)
Cruising Speed: 358 km/h (222 mph) at 3500 m (11,482 ft)
Range: 1500 km (932 miles) at 320 km/h (198mph) at 4300 m (14,107 ft)
Service ceiling: 7800 m (25,550 ft)
Passengers: 10 seated two abreast
Crew: three flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Lufthansa
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: one of the first fast monoplane airliners developed in Europe.

Type: Kokusai Ki-68
Classification: light transport/ feederliner
Length: 12.53 m (41 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 16.98 m (55 ft 7 in)
Height: 3.05 m (10 ft)
Empty weight: 2800 kg (6,172 lb)
Loaded weight: 4120 kg (9,083 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 4400 kg
Powerplant: two 510hp Hitachi Ha-13a radials
Maximum speed: 307 km/h (190 mph)
Range: 800 km (497 miles)
Passengers: 8 seated two abreast
Crew: two flight crew, one optional cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: JAL and IJAAF
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: this monoplane first flew in 1938.

Type: Lockheed Model 10-A Electra
Classification: light airliner
Length: 11.86 m (38 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 16.76 m (55 ft)
Height: 3.07 m (10 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 42.58 m² (458.3 ft²)
Empty weight: 3221 kg (7,100 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 4763 kg (10,500 lb)
Powerplant: two 450-550hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior radials
Maximum speed: 323 km/h (201 mph) at 1525 m (5,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 312 km/h (194 mph) at 1525 m (5,000 ft)
Range: 1072 km (666 miles)
Service ceiling: 7315 m (24,000 ft)
Passengers: 10 seated two abreast with toilet aft
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: several airlines including Compania Argentina de Aeronavegacion Tucan (4), BEA (6), Braniff Airways, British West Indian Airways Ltd (2), Canadian Pacific Airlines Ltd (1), Chicago and Southern Air Lines, Continental Air Lines, Delta Air Lines, Eastern, Mid-Continent Airlines, National Airlines, Northeast, Northwest, PanAm, Trans-Canada Airlines (5) and Wisconsin Central Airlines, plus private firms and owners and air forces including the USAAF and USN
Availability: No longer in production. Plenty of choice on the second-hand market
Notes: the Electra first flew in 1932 and has been exported widely.

Type: Lockheed Model 12-A
Classification: feederliner
Length: 11.07 m (36 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 15.09 m (49 ft 6 in)
Height: 2.97 m (9 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 32.7m² (352 ft²)
Empty weight: 2703 kg (5,960 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 4173 kg (9,200 lb)
Powerplant: two 450hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior radials
Maximum speed: 362 km/h (225 mph)
Cruising Speed: 341 km/h (212 mph)
Range: 1287 km (800 miles)
Service ceiling: 6980 m (22,900 ft)
Passengers: 6 seated two abreast with toilet aft
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Availability: Still in production. Plenty of choice on the second-hand market.
Operators: several airlines and private firms and owners and air forces including the USAAF and USN
Notes: a smaller version of the Electra, first flown in 1933. 114 civil Model 12s have been built so far and production continues.

Type: Lockheed Model 75 Saturn
Classification: light airliner
Length: 15.7 m (51 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 22.5 m (74 ft)
Wing area: 46.64 m² (502 ft²)
Empty weight: 5153 kg (11,361 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 7258 kg (16,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 800hp Wright R-1300 Cyclone radials
Cruising Speed: 332 km/h (206 mph)
Range: 966 km (600 miles)
Passengers: 14 seated two abreast with facilities including toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage, the cabin can be configured as a passenger/freight mixed layout
Operators: none yet
Availability: To enter production in late 1943.
Notes: a replacement for the Lodestar with a high-wing, twin engines, single tailplane and box fuselage for 14 passengers or cargo. First flight planned in 1943.

Manshu Aircraft Company MAC-1 Hayabusa
Classification: feederliner
Length: 9.38 m (30 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 13.6 m (44 ft 6 in)
Height: 3.6 m (11ft 8 in)
Wing area: 27.30 m² (294 ft²)
Empty weight: 1,700 kg (3,747 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 2,700 kg (5,952 lb)
Powerplant: one 460hp Nakajima Kotobuki 2-kai-1 9-cyl air-cooled radial
Maximum speed: 240 km/h (149 mph)
Cruising speed: 200 km/h (124 mph)
Service ceiling: 6,000 m (19,685 ft)
Range: 902 km (560 miles)
Passengers: six
Crew: pilot only
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Yunnan Airline (3), Manchukuo National Airways
Availability: No longer in production. Second-hand examples scarce outside Chinese market.
The MAC-1 Hayabusa ("Peregrine Falcon") (also known at the MT-1) airliner was the only aircraft built by Manshu Aircraft Company before the company was bought by Harbin Aviation Ltd. The prototype aircraft made its first flight in April 1933.

Type: Miles M.60 Marathon
Classification: feederliner
Length: 15.89 m (52 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 19.81 m (65 ft)
Height: 4.29 m (14 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 46.3 m² (468 ft²)
Empty weight: 5313 kg (11,688 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 8295 kg (18,250 lb)
Powerplant: four 250hp DH Gipsy Queen 71
Maximum speed: 321 km/h (200 mph)
Cruising Speed: 276 km/h (172 mph)
Range: 1367 km (850 miles)
Service ceiling: 5029 m (16,500 ft)
Passengers: up to 20 seated two/three abreast with a toilet aft
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: BEA (50 on order for delivery from 1944), BOAC (20 on order for delivery from 1944)
Availability: To begin production in early 1944
Notes: developed to meet Spec P.2/41 for BEA for a feederliner. The M.60 has a high-wing, triple fins and tricycle undercarriage. The first flight is planned for May 1943; Miles has stated they need to sell a 100 to break even on this project.

Type: Mitsubishi Ki-65
Classification: light airliner
Length: 16.1 m (52 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: 22.6 m (74 ft 1 in)
Height: 4.86 m (15 ft 9 in)
Empty weight: 5522 kg (12,173 lb)
Loaded weight: 7860 kg (17,328 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 9120 kg (20,106 lb)
Powerplant: two 1,080hp Nakajima Ha-5 radials
Maximum speed: 430 km/h (267 mph)
Service ceiling: 7000 m (869 miles)
Range: 1400 km (869 miles) normal load, 3000 km 1,864 miles) with maximum fuel
Passengers: 11 seated two abreast with toilet aft
Crew: three flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: JAL and IJAAF
Availability: In production.
Notes: a development of the Ki-22 first flown in 1937 and introduced in 1939. The C-4B is a variant solely for the IJAAF with 1,080hp Mitsubishi Ha-102 radials and slightly improved performance.

Type: Noorduyn Norseman
Classification: feederliner/ STOL field transport
Length: 9.85 m (32 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 15.7 m (51 ft 5 in)
Height: 3.07m (10 ft)
Wing area: 30m² (325 ft²)
Empty weight: 1923 kg (4,240 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 3357 kg (7,400 lb (3,357 kg) with floats
Powerplant: one Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN1 radial
Cruising Speed: 240 km/h (150 mph)
Range: 1500 km (932 miles)
Service ceiling: 5200 m (17,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 3 m/s (591 ft/min)
Passengers: up to 10 seated two abreast
Crew: one/two flight crew
Cargo: the cabin can carry cargo and freight
Operators: numerous small airlines and military operators
Availability: In production. Several on second-hand market.
Notes: the cabin is 3.19 m (10.46 ft) long, exceptionally rugged construction, can be fitted with floats

Type: Percival Q.6 Petrel
Classification: feederliner
Length: 9.83 m (32 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 14.22 m (46 ft 8 in)
Height: 2.97 m (9ft 9 in)
Wing area: 25.83 m² (278 ft²)
Empty weight: 1588 kg (3,500 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 2495 kg (5,500 lb)
Powerplant: two 205hp de Havilland Gipsy Six inlines
Maximum speed: 314 km/h (195 mph)
Cruising Speed: 282 km/h (175 mph)
Range: 1207 km (750 miles)
Service ceiling: 6400 m (21,000 ft)
Passengers: 3/5 seated on individual seats
Crew: one pilot plus optional co-pilot
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: several small airlines including Air Malta (3), Burma and Malaya Air Services Ltd (7) and the Egyptian government (2), Vickers-Armstrong Ltd (2) and some private owners
Availability: Still in limited production. Few on second-hand market
Notes: First flown September 1935, of wooden construction with plywood and fabric covering. A retractable undercarriage is available as an option.

Type: Philippine Aircraft Development Company PAC Model 880 Sunbird
Classification: short-range airliner
Length: 21.6 m (70 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: 30.62 m (100 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 101 m² (1087.2 ft²)
Empty weight: 10455 kg (23,049 lb)
Loaded weight: 16000 kg (35,273 lb)
Powerplant: four 520hp Ranger V-770C-1 12-cylinder inlines
Maximum speed: 330 km/h at 4000m (205 mph at 13,120 feet)
Economical Cruising Speed: 285 km/h (177 mph)
Range: 890 km (553 miles)
Service ceiling: 7800 m (25,590 ft)
Passengers: 36 seated four abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: three flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only in aft and underfloor compartments. A cargo-only version can carry up to 4000kg (8,818 lb)
Operators: Philippine Air Lines (10)
Availability: In production from November 1944
Notes: developed from 1942 to meet Philippine Air Lines specifications for a high-capacity airliner, the first prototype flew in February 1944 and ten were ordered. This is the biggest indigenous aircraft yet attempted in the Philippines.

Type: Ripon C-2
Classification: feederliner
Length: 13.8 m (45 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 17.64 m (57 ft 9 in)
Height: 3.5 m (11 ft 6in)
Empty weight: 3200 kg (7,000 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 5000 kg (11,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 235hp Roth 7 cylinder single row radials
Maximum speed: 300 km/h (186 mph)
Range: 1000 km (621 miles)
Service ceiling: 5050 m (16,750 ft)
Passengers: 6 seated two abreast
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market
Operators: several Atlantean, Colombian and Venezuelan airlines and the Chilean Air Force
Notes: developed to meet the needs of the Atlantean Air Force and local airlines, this monoplane design with its retractable undercarriage was advanced for its day.

Type: Shennong Dragonfly
Classification: light airliner
Length: 17.6 m (57 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 22.5 m (73 ft 8 in)
Wing area: 82 m² (882 ft²)
Empty weight: 5200 kg (11,464 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 8200 kg (18,077 lb)
Powerplant: two 845hp Hung Po 132 D inlines
Maximum speed: 375 km/h (233 mph)
Cruising Speed: 315 km/h (135 mph)
Range: 1000 km (621 miles)
Service ceiling: 6900 m (22,637 ft)
Passengers: 10 seated two abreast
Crew: three flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Availability: Still in limited production.
Operators: The Eurasia Aviation Corporation, Royal Thai Air Airlines (10), Persian Airways (24)
Notes: this was China’s first airliner and features monoplane wings, twin fins and a retractable undercarriage.

Shennong Glow-worm
Classification: Feederliner
Length: 10.98 m (36 ft)
Wingspan: 13.54 m (44ft 4 in)
Height: 3.64 m (11 ft 9 in)
Empty Weight: 1640 kg (3,615 lb)
Loaded Weight: 2860 kg (6,305 lb)
Maximum Weight: 2960 kg (6,525 lb)
Payload: 1035kg (2,281 lb)
Powerplant: two 270hp air cooled 8-cylinder inlines
Maximum speed: 330 km/h (205 mph)
Cruising speed: 285 km/h (177 mph)
Service Ceiling: 5200 m (17,060 ft)
Range: 1100 km (683 miles)
Passengers: 6 seated two abreast
Crew: pilot and radio operator
Operators: CNAC
Availability: Still in production.
Notes: Developed in response to a CNAC request for a modern twin-engined commuter aircraft for six passengers. The Glow-worm features a retractable tailwheel and is designed for a high cruising speed.

Type: Siebel Si204
Classification: feederliner
Length: 11.9 m (39 ft)
Wingspan: 21.3 m (69 ft 8 in)
Height: 4.25 m (13 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 46 m² (468 ft²)
Empty weight: 3950 kg (8,708 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 5590 kg (12,323 lb)
Powerplant: two 600hp Argus As411 inverted Vee air-cooled engines
Maximum speed: 364 km/h (226 mph) at 3000 m (9,842 ft)
Cruising Speed: 340 km/h (211 mph)
Range: 1800 km (1,119 miles)
Service ceiling: 7500 m (24,606 ft)
Passengers: 8 seated two abreast, toilet aft
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: 200 kg (440 lb) of baggage
Operators: Lufthansa
Availability: Still in production.
Notes: this is the civil variant on which the Si204A navigation/ wireless trainer in based. Has twin fins and retractable undercarriage.

Medium-Range Airliners

Type: Aero A.350
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 24.60 m (80 ft 8½ in)
Wingspan: 34.20 m (112 ft 2¾ in)
Height: 5.74 m (18 ft 10¼ in)
Wing area: 128.20 m² (1,379.90 ft²)
Empty weight: 12500 kg (27,563 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 19600 kg (43,216 lb)
Powerplant: three 986hp BMW Bramo 323 R-2 Fafnir 9-cylinder radials
Maximum speed: 370 km/h (230 mph) at 5,050 m (16,565 ft)
Cruising speed: 240 km/h (149 mph)
Range: 1800 km (1,118 miles)
Service ceiling: 6000 m (19,686 ft)
Passengers: 32 seated four abreast with facilities including a galley and toilet
Crew: two/three flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: CSA (15 on order for delivery from late-1942)
Availability: To begin production in late-1942.
Notes: This is a tri-engined airliner. The monoplane wing is mounted low and is a single-piece unit bolted to the fuselage at four points. The wing houses fuel tanks with a capacity of 4,700 litres (1,034 gal), the nacelles have NACA-type cowlings and the engines are fitted as ‘power-eggs’. A sturdy tailwheel undercarriage is fitted. The flight crew of four are sat forward in the square-section fuselage with the passenger cabin behind and the baggage compartment in the tail. A door is fitted in the rear portside. The prototype first flew on 18 August 1941. Production will be carried out with the assistance of Letov.

Type: Ripon-Bloch 220
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 19.25 m (63 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 22.82 m (74 ft 10½ in)
Wing area: 75 m² (807.32 ft²)
Empty weight: 6807 kg (15,007 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 9500 kg (20,944 lb)
Powerplant: two 985hp Gnome-Rhône 14N-16/7 radials
Maximum speed: 330 km/h (205 mph)
Range: 1400 km (870 miles)
Service ceiling: 7000 m (22,950 ft)
Passengers: 16 seated three abreast with facilities including a toilet
Crew: three flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: several Atlantean, Colombian and Venezuelan airlines
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: this is a variant of the Ripon-Bloch 220 built in France by Bloch. Production ended in 1940.

Type: Bloch MB.161 Languedoc
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 24.26 m (79 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 29.39 m (96 ft 5 in)
Height: 5.14 m (16 ft 10 in)
Wing area: 111.32 m² (1198 ft²)
Empty weight: 12651 kg (27891 lb)
Gross weight: 20577 kg (45320 lb)
Powerplant: four 858hp Gnome-Rhône 14N 44/45 radials
Maximum speed: 440 km/h (274 mph)
Range: 3200 km (1989 miles)
Service ceiling: 7200 m (23616 ft)
Passengers: 33 seated four abreast with facilities including toilets and galley
Crew: four flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: Air France
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: An airliner version of the Bloch MB.160 four-engine bomber. First flown in 1936 and entered service in 1939. The Languedoc has a few faults which will be addressed with an upgraded variant sometime in the future.

Type: Blohm und Voss Bv144
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 21.8 m (71 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 27 m (88 ft 5 in)
Height: 5.94 m (19 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 88m² (947.22 ft²)
Empty weight: 8100 kg (17,857 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 13000 kg (28,660 lb)
Powerplant: two 1,700hp BMW Flugmotorenbau 801MA radials
Maximum speed: 470 km/h (292 mph)
Cruising Speed: 440 km/h (273 mph)
Range: 1550 km (963 miles)
Service ceiling:
Passengers: 18 to 22 seated three/ four abreast with toilet aft in a pressurised cabin
Crew: three flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and up to 500 kg (1,102 lb) of mail/ freight
Operators: Lufthansa, Aer Lingus and Balkan Bulgarian Airlines (4 on order for delivery in 1941/42)
Availability: In production.
Notes: the BV144 has been developed for Lufthansa’s European routes and features a high-wing and tricycle undercarriage.

Breguet Br.470 Fulgur/ Shennong Firefly
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 15.93 m (52 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 20.5 m (67 ft 2 in)
Height: 5.93 m (19 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 56.25 m² (605.47 ft²)
Empty weight: 4,840 kg (10,670 lb)
Gross weight: 8,200 kg (18,077 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 8,600 kg (18,959 lb)
Powerplant: two 815hp Gnome-Rhone 14K 14-cylinder air cooled radials
Maximum speed: 385 km/h at 1,600 m (239 mph at 5,250 ft)
Range: 1,000 km (620 miles)
Service ceiling: 6,000 m (19,685 ft)
Passengers: 12 seated two abreast with facilities including a toilet
Crew: two flight crew
Operators: Several Chinese airlines.
Availability: Production ended. Chinese second-hand market strongest.
Notes: Designed by Breguet in the mid-1930s, an all-metal low-wing monoplane airliner with a retractable tailwheel undercarriage. First flight was on 5 March 1936. Shennong Ltd. bought the prototype and acquired license production rights.

Type: Breguet Br.810 Bretagne
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 18.95 m (62 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 26.90 m (88 ft 2 in)
Height: 5.90 m (19 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 86.2 m² (927.5 sq ft)
Empty weight: 14080 kg (31,030 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 20100 kg (44,600 lb)
Powerplant: two 2,240hp Gnome-Rhône 18k Mistral Titan radials
Maximum speed 560 km/h (348 mph)
Cruising speed: 422 km/h (263 mph)
Range: 1140 km (710 miles)
Service ceiling: 12000 m (39,370 ft)
Passengers: 30 to 40 seated three/four abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: three flight crew and two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only, there is a cargo variant with a cargo door aft and a reinforced floor
Operators: Air France
Availability: In production.
Notes: First flight was during February 1940 with the first in service during 1941. A version with a lengthened fuselage and more range (estimated at 1,800km) is being developed for 1942.

Type: Bristol 170 Freighter
Classification: medium-range freighter
Length: 22.4 m (73 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 32.92 m (108 ft)
Height: 7.62 m (25 ft)
Wing area: 138.13m² (1,487 ft²)
Empty weight: 13404 kg (29,950 lb)
Gross weight: 19958 kg (44,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 1,770hp Bristol Hercules XXII radials
Maximum speed: 318 km/h (198 mph)
Range: 788 km (490 miles)
Service ceiling: 6400 m (21,000 ft)
Passengers: see below, up to 16 seats can be fitted in a mixed passenger/freighter layout
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: bulky items can be carried and there is space in the hold to stow three cars
Operators: none yet
Availability: To enter production in mid-1944.
Notes: designed as a private venture as a large freight carrier with a square-section fuselage with hydraulically operated clamshell nose doors and a cargo door in the rear port-side. Planned to fly during December 1943. Possible RAF order as the Wayfarer. A 34-seat passenger only version with a solid nose is also under study.

Type: Caproni Atlante I
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 29.87 m (98 ft)
Wingspan: 38.08 m (124 ft 9 in)
Height: 8.23 m (27 ft)
Wing area: 145 m² (1,560 ft²)
Empty weight: 30880 kg (68,078 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 43000 kg (94,798 lb)
Powerplant: four 2,300hp Isotta-Fraschini Asso 2500 RC.15/60 radials
Maximum speed: 579 km/h (359 mph) at 6000 m (19,686 ft)
Range: 2300 km (1,429 miles)
Service ceiling: 11000 m (36,089 ft)
Rate of climb: 5.0m/s (984 ft/min)
Passengers: 80 seated four abreast with facilities including toilets and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: four flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Ali Italia (30 on order for delivery during 1942)
Availability: To enter production in 1942.
Notes: the first prototype flew in early 1940 and underwent a lengthy flight test programme. The sheer size of the aircraft broke new ground for the Italian aircraft industry. A number of lessons learnt during the programme will prove most valuable for the larger Piaggio 127 long-range airliner.

Type: Constelación Aviation T2C Royal Condor
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 18.3m (60 ft)
Wingspan: 23.2 m (76 ft)
Height: 5.8m (19 ft)
Wing area: 59.9m² (645 ft²)
Empty weight: 3000 kg (6,613.9 lb)
Loaded weight: 4750 kg (10,472 lb)
Powerplant: four 525hp de Havilland Gipsy Twelve 12 inlines
Maximum speed: 403 km/h (250 mph)
Range: 2574 km (1,600 miles)
Service ceiling: 7010 m (23,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 2.13 m/s (7 ft/s)
Passengers: 16-22 seated two/ three abreast with facilities that include a toilet and/ or galley
Crew: two flight crew one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Aeravias Argentinas S.A. (9), ARC (Antarctic Research Consortium) (2), Chilean Air Force (1), LAN (12) and the Latvian Air Force (6)
Availability: No longer in production. None on second-hand market yet.
Notes: this airliner is a high-winged four-engine airliner capable of operating off smaller runways which many newer and larger airliners are not able to serve. The prototype flew in 1937. The wing has Fowler flaps in a complicated double-flap arrangement.

Type: Curtiss CW-20
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 23.27 m (76 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 32.94 m (108 ft 1 in)
Height: 6.63 m (21 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 126.34 m² (1,360 ft²)
Empty weight: 14696 kg (32,400 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 25401 kg (56,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 2,000hp Wright R-2600 Double Wasp radials
Maximum speed: 433 km/h (269 mph)
Cruising Speed: 295 km/h (183 mph)
Range: 1931 km (1,200 miles)
Service ceiling: 8410 m (27,600 ft)
Passengers: 34 seated four abreast or 20 night passengers in sleeper berths with facilities including toilet and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and light cargo in two holds
Operators: several airlines
Availability: Still in production.
Notes: developed as a twin-engined airliner with a pressurised double-bubble fuselage and a single fin. The prototype first flew in 1938 and since then has entered airline service and is still in production.

Type: de Havilland D.H.91 Albatross
Classification: medium-range airliner/ mail pane
Length: 21.79 m (71 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 32 m (105 ft)
Height: 6.78 m (22 ft 3in)
Wing area:100.15 m² (1,078 ft²)
Empty weight: 9630 kg (21,230lb)
Max takeoff weight: 13381 kg (29,500 lb)
Powerplant: four 525hp de Havilland Gipsy Twelve inlines
Maximum speed: 362 km/h (225 mph)
Cruising Speed: 338 km/h (210 mph)
Range: 1674 km (1,040 miles)
Service ceiling: 5455 m (17,900 ft)
Passengers: 22 seated four abreast with facilities including a galley and toilet
Crew: four flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only in airliner, mail in main hold in mail plane
Operators: BOAC (14 6 mail planes and 8 airliners), QUANTAS (2), Persian Airways (6), Royal Thai Airlines (10)
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: Designed as a transatlantic mail plane, first flown in May 1935. The construction of this sleek airliner is wooden monocoque. The de Havilland Siam factory built ten under licence during 1936-37.

Type: de Havilland D.H.95 Flamingo
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 15.72 m (51 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 21.34 m (70 ft)
Height: 4.65 m (15 ft 3 in)
Wing area: 60.48 m² (651 ft²)
Empty weight: 5137 kg (11,325 lb)
All-Up Weight: 7983 kg (17,600 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 8165 kg (18,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 930hp Bristol Perseus XVI radials
Maximum speed: 391 km/h (243 mph)
Cruising Speed: 328 km/h (204 mph)
Range: 2165 km (1,345 miles)
Service ceiling: 6370 m (20,900 ft)
Passengers: 17 passengers seated four abreast with facilities including a galley and toilet
Crew: 2/3 fight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: BOAC (17), BEA (22), Canadian Colonial Airways (3), Canadian Pacific Airlines Ltd (17), Channel Island Airways Ltd (2), Railway Air Services Ltd (4), Trans-Canada Airlines (10) and Scottish Airways Ltd (3)
Availability: Still in production but will end soon in favour of MK II.
Notes: A private venture design which first flew in December 1937. This all-metal high-wing airliner is designed for economical operation and is capable of operation from rough strips with limited facilities. Also built by de Havilland Canada as the DHC.95 and DHC.95A Manitoba transport. The Flamingo is the basis of the D.H.95A Hertfordshire military transport which has a larger cargo door military equipment and square windows.

Type: de Havilland D.H.95 Flamingo Mk II
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 16.15 m (53 ft)
Wingspan: 21.34 m (70 ft)
Height: 5.69 m (18 ft 7 in)
Wing area: 60.48 m² (651 ft²)
All-Up Weight: 8845 kg (19,500 lb)
Powerplant: two 950hp Bristol Perseus XVII radials
Maximum speed: 408 km/h (254 mph) at 2133 m (7,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 338 km/h (210 mph)
Range: 2517 km (1,564 miles), 2864 km (1,780 miles) at most economical speed of 271 km/h (169mph)
Service ceiling: 6370 m (20,900 ft)
Passengers: 17 passengers seated four abreast with facilities including a galley and toilet
Crew: 2 fight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only, as a freighter it can carry 1224 kg (2,700 lb)
Operators: BEA (20 on order for delivery from late 1941), Burma and Malaya Air Services Ltd (4 on order), Palestine Airways (2 on order), Railway Air Services Ltd (4 on order), Scottish Airways Ltd (3 on order), Channel Air Ferries (6 on order)
Availability: In production.
Notes: The Flamingo Mk II is a major redesign with a new single tail, longer cabin, improved wing, stronger fuselage and new engines. The rear fuselage is lengthened 2ft with a stronger floor and new loading hatch and better use of internal space means the cabin is 0.9 m (2 ft 10 in) longer and the baggage compartment 30 cm (1 ft) longer, the radio operator has an extra 15 cm (6 in) of room, new nacelles are fitted for easier engine access along with a high-pressure hydraulic system and redesigned ailerons.

Type: De Havilland D.H.97 Ambassador
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 24.99 m (82 ft)
Wingspan: 35.05 m (115 ft)
Height: 5.74 m (18 ft 10 in)
Wing area: 111.48 m² (1,200 ft²)
Empty weight: 16047 kg (35,377 lb)
Loaded weight: 23814 kg (52,500 lb)
Powerplant: two 2,585hp Bristol Centaurus VI radials
Maximum speed: 502 km/h (312 mph)
Cruising Speed: 418km/h (260 mph)
Range: 1931 km (1,200 miles), 933 km (580 miles) with maximum payload
Service ceiling: 7604 m (24,950 ft)
Rate of climb: 6.35 m/s (1,250 ft/min)
Passengers: 28-39 passengers in mixed class layout with 49 five abreast as maximum layout with facilities including a galley and toilet in a pressurised cabin
Crew: two flight crew and one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: none yet
Availability: to enter production in 1945.
Notes: designed at de Havilland’s Christchurch division the prototype should fly in July 1944. The design includes a triple fin, tricycle undercarriage and a pressurised cabin.

Type: Dewoitine D.338
Classification: medium-airliner
Length: 22.13 m (72 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 29 m (95 ft 1 in)
Wing Area: 80 m² (861.14 ft²)
Powerplant: three 650hp Hispano-Suiza V16/17 radials
Maximum speed: 301 km/h (187 mph)
Cruising Speed: 260 km/h (162 mph)
Passengers: 24 seated two abreast with a toilet aft
Crew: one pilot
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Air France and the Armee de l'Aire
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: this tri-motor monoplane was introduced in 1935. The D.342 was an improved variant built during 1936 with 915hp Gnome-Rhone 14N radials. The D.344 is the Armee de l’Aire variant.

Type: Douglas DC-2
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 18.75 m (61 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 25.91 n (85 ft)
Height: 5.69 m (18 ft 8 in)
Wing area: 87.23 m² (939 ft²)
Empty weight: 6681 kg (14,729 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 9525 kg (21,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 710hp Wright R-1820-F3 Cyclone or 760hp SGR-1820-F52 Cyclone radials
Maximum speed: 338 km/h (210 mph)
Cruising Speed: 281 km/h (175 mph)
Range: 1448-1609 km (900-1,000 miles)
Service ceiling: 6843 m (22,450 ft)
Passengers: 14 seated two abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: several airlines across the world including Air Malta (1), American Airlines, Braniff Airways, CLS (Czech), Delta Air Lines (4), Eastern (14), General Air Lines, KNILM, KLM, PanAm (16), Swissair and TWA (30)
Availability: No longer in production. Plenty of choice on the second-hand market
Notes: this revolutionary airliner was developed from the prototype DC-1 built for TWA and first flew in May 1931. 193 have been built by Douglas, also built under licence by Fokker for KLM and Nakajima for JAL.

Type: Douglas DC-3
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 19.57 m (64 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 28.96 m (95 ft)
Height: 5.16 m (16 ft 11 in)
Wing area: 91.69 m² (987 ft²)
Empty weight: 7698 kg (16,970 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 11793 kg (26,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 1,200hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp radials
Maximum speed: 369 km/h (229 mph) at 2285 m (7,500 ft)
Cruising Speed: 298 km/h (185 mph) at 3050 m (10,000 ft)
Range: 2414 km (1,500 miles)
Service ceiling: 7070 m (23,200 ft)
Passengers: 21-28 passengers seated four abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail, the civil and USAAF cargo variant has a reinforced floor and cargo door in the rear portside of the fuselage, these can be operated as mixed passenger/ freighters
Operators: several airlines across the world including Austin Airways (1), American, BOAC (8), Canadian Pacific Airlines Ltd (6), Eastern, Piedmont Airlines, TWA and United (including 16 DST)
Availability: Still in production. Plenty of choice on the second-hand market.
Notes: developed from the earlier DC-2, initially as the DST sleeper variant. Over 400 are now in service with the four major airlines in America. Also built for the USAAF as the C-47 cargo transport as the R-4D for the USN. Cargo variants are also made commercially. The type is built under licence in Mexico, Poland and Japan.

Type: Douglas DC-5
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 19.05 m (62 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 23.77 m (78 ft)
Height: 6.05 m (19 ft 10 in)
Wing area: 76.55 m² (824 ft²)
Empty weight: 6202 kg (13,674 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 9072 kg (20,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 850hp Wright GR-1820-F62 Cyclone radials
Maximum speed: 356 km/h (221 mph) at 2345 m (7,700 ft)
Cruising Speed: 325 km/h (202 mph) at 3050 m (10,000 ft)
Range: 2575 km (1,600 miles)
Service ceiling: 7225 m (23,700 ft)
Passengers: 16-22 seated two/three abreast with facilities including toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Availability: In production. Few on second-hand market.
Operators: several airlines including Pennsylvania Central Airways (6) and Aeromexico (30)
Notes: this sleek twin-engined airliner has a high-wing and tricycle undercarriage. First flown in February 1937 and also licence produced in Mexico by Douglas subsidiary Azcarte. Many DC-3 parts are used.

Type: Fokker F.XX Zilvermeeuw
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 16.5 m (54 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 25.7 m (84 ft 3 in)
Height: 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 96 m2 (1,033 ft2)
Empty weight: 6455 kg (14,231 lb)
Gross weight: 9400 kg (20,723 lb)
Powerplant: three 890hp Wright GR-1820-F52 Cyclone radials
Maximum speed: 305 km/h (190 mph)
Range: 1410 km (876 miles)
Service ceiling: 10,668 m (35,000 ft)
Passengers: 12 seated two abreast or 6 sleeper berths, facilities include toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: KLM
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: entered service with KLM in 1934, it has a monoplane wing and retractable undercarriage and has rough field capability.

Type: Fokker F.37 Arend
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 23.59 m (77 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 33 m (108 ft3 in)
Wing area: 171.87 m² (1,850 ft²)
Max takeoff weight: 18000 kg (39,683 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,000hp Pratt & Whitney SB-G Twin Wasp
Maximum speed: 392 km/h (244 mph)
Range: 2500 km (1,553 miles)
Service ceiling: 9753 m (32,000 ft)
Rate of climb : 5.48 m/sec (1,079 ft/min)
Passengers: 32 seated four abreast or 16 sleeper berths, facilities include toilet and galley
Crew: three flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and up to 453 kg (1,000 6b) of mail
Operators: KLM
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: developed for the KLM Amsterdam-Batavia route. The F.36 was the prototype, the F.36A was an all-metal version which entered limited production. The F.37 is a further development with a retractable undercarriage which entered service in late 1935. The Arend is equipped with specially manufactured 70” Dunlop tires to allow the use of mud airstrips.

Type: Fokker F.24
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 20.7 m (67 ft 9 in)
Wingspan: 28.5 m (95 ft 6in)
Height: 5.2 m (17 ft)
Empty weight: 8500 kg (18,740 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 13250 kg (29,211 lb)
Powerplant: two 1,600hp Wright R-2600 Cyclone radials
Cruising speed: 330 km/h (205 mph)
Range: 1,200 km (745 miles) with full payload
Passengers: 24 seated three abreast in two cabins, facilities include toilet and galley
Crew: four flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: there is a cargo hold with a cargo door of the starboard side behind the cockpit, two more in the wing centre section and another in the rear fuselage
Operators: KLM and KNILM
Availability: Still in production.
Notes: features include an integral stair which folds into the side wall of the fuselage, a tricycle undercarriage and the fuselage underside is reinforced to protect the passengers in the event of an emergency wheels-up landing. Entered KLM service in early 1937.

Fokker-Avia B.90
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 23.59 m (77 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 36.05 m (118 ft 3 in)
Wing area: 191 m² (2,053 ft²)
Empty weight: 11,384 kg (25,098 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 19,500 kg (42,990 lb)
Powerplant: 3 x 1290hp Avia Faucon I 14-cylinder radials
Maximum speed: 409km/h (254 mph)
Range: 2,222 km (1,381 miles)
Service ceiling: 10,700 m (35,000 ft)
Wingloading Loaded / Empty : 20.9 lbs/ ft², 16.06 lbs/ ft²
Armament (military version only): None
Passengers: 32 seated four abreast with toilet and galley, up to 54 passengers can be carried in a high-density layout
Crew : three flight crew
Cargo: 4090kg for 2,222km / 5200kg for 1,500km / 6020kg for 1000km / 6875kg for 500km
(9,000lbs for 1380mi / 11,470lbs for 932mi / 13,275lbs for 621mi / 15,162lbs for 310mi)
Operators: CSA (10)
Availability: Still in production
Notes: The B.90 was developed from the Fokker Arend F.36 airliner. It retains the F.36’s robust undercarriage, giant 70” Dunlop tires and ability to operate from mud airstrips. The 2.4m wide fuselage with cargo deck allows light vehicles and artillery pieces to be accommodated. A dorsal track & cable system allows cargo to be hoisted along the deck. The B.90 has a 58 foot cargo deck and can carry 4000kg of cargo or be fitted for 32 passengers and fly at 300kph for 2,222km. More cargo or passengers can be accommodated for shorter ranges.

Type: Gothia Works GW Type 110
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 21.3 m (69 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: 31.7 m (104 ft)
Height: 8.1 m (26 ft 5 in)
Empty weight: 9000 kg (19,841 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 17000 kg (37,478 lb)
Powerplant: two 1482hp GWM L-1500 radials
Maximum speed: 380 km/h (236 mph)
Range: 1900 km (1,180 miles)
Passengers: 26-30 seated four abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: four flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage, the cabin can accommodate 3500 kg (7,716 lb) of freight
Operators: several small airlines and the IJAAF (25)
Availability: No longer in production. None on second-hand market.
Notes: first flown in 1935, this monoplane is unusual in having wide panoramic cabin windows; the navigator sits in a glazed bulbous nose compartment.

Type: Junkers Ju52
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 18.5 m (60 ft 6in)
Wingspan: 29.25 m (95 ft 11in)
Height: 5.55 m (18 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 110.05m² (1,189.45 ft²)
Empty weight: 6590 kg (14,528 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 10500 kg (23,149 lb)
Powerplant: three 725hp BMW 132A radials
Maximum speed: 290 km/h (180 mph)
Cruising Speed: 180 km/h (111 mph)
Range: 1200 km (745 miles), 1300 km (808 miles) with extra fuel
Service ceiling: 6300 m (20,669 ft)
Passengers: 17 seated three abreast, toilet aft
Crew: three flight crew, one optional cabin crew
Cargo: the main cabin can be sued for carrying freight
Operators: numerous airlines and air forces across the world including, Aeravias Argentinas S.A. (2), Aeroposta Argentina S.A. (9), BEA (3 as mail planes), Canadian Pacific Airlines Ltd (1), Lufthansa and Kenyan Air Services (3)
Availability: No longer in production. Plenty of choice on the second-hand market.
Notes: this tri-motor airliner has become a ubiquitous aircraft due to its sturdy construction and reliability. Also licence built in China by E.W.I.L. Ltd. as the SAC-52 powered by three Huang Po 132 A-3 (licen0built BMW 132) radial engines.

Type: Junkers Ju252A
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 22.73 m (74 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 28.42 m (93 ft 4 in)
Height: 8.66 m (28 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 80.27m² (861 ft²)
Empty weight: 13211 kg (29,125 lb)
Gross weight: 20366 kg (44,900 lb)
Powerplant: two 2,20hp Brandenburgische Motorenbau 328A radials
Maximum speed: 500 km/h (310 mph) at 6000m (19,686 ft)
Cruising Speed: 450 km/h (285 mph) at 6000m (19,686 ft)
Range: 770 km (478 miles) with maximum payload, 1700 km (1,056 miles) with maximum fuel
Service ceiling:
Passengers: 44 seated four abreast with toilet aft
Crew: three flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Lufthansa (20 on order)
Availability: to enter production in 1941.
Notes: this low-wing airliner with a tricycle undercarriage and unpressurised fuselage is now in development for Lufthansa

Type: Kawasaki Ki-63
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 14.9 m (48 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: 19.96 m (65 ft 4 in)
Height: 3.6 m (11 ft 8 in)
Empty weight: 4672 kg (10,300 lb)
Loaded weight: 8024 kg (17,689 lb)
Powerplant: two 990hp Nakajima Ha-25 radials
Maximum speed: 400 km/h (248 mph)
Range: 3300 km (2,050 miles)
Service ceiling: 8000 m (26,246 ft)
Passengers: 14 seated two abreast with toilet aft
Crew: four flight crew
Cargo: 2400 kg (5,291 lb) of freight can be carried in the cabin
Operators: JAL and IJAAF
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: first flight 1938 and introduced into service in 1939

Type: Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 13.51 m (44 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 19.96 m (65 ft 6 in)
Height: 3.63 m (11 ft 11 in)
Wing area: 51.19 m² (551 ft²)
Empty weight: 5817 kg (12,825 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 9299 kg (20,500 lb)
Powerplant: two 900-1,200hp Wright R-1820 Cyclone or Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp radials
Maximum speed: 407 km/h (253 mph) at 4570 m (15,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 330 km/h (205 mph)
Range: 2494 km (1,550 miles)
Service ceiling: 8075 m (26,500 ft)
Passengers: 14 seated two abreast with a toilet aft, if a galley and stewardess are carried passenger capacity is cut to 11
Crew: two flight crew, optional one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail/ light freight
Operators: several airlines including BEA (14), British West Indian Airways Ltd (2, Continental, Northwest and Trans-Canada Airlines (14)
Availability: No longer in production. Good choices on the second-hand market.
Notes: an enlarged Model which first flew in 1935 to compete with the DC-2. It has a new mid-set wing with Fowler trailing-edge flaps.

Type: Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 15.19 (49 ft 10 on)
Wingspan: 19.96 m (65 ft 6 in)
Height: 3.38 m (11 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 51.1 m² (550 ft²)
Empty weight: 5284 kg (11,650 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 7938 kg (17,500 lb)
Powerplant: two 750hp Pratt & Whitney S1E-3G Hornets or 900hp Pratt & Whitney SC-3G Twin Wasps or 1,050hp S4C-4G Twin Wasps or 900hp Wright GR-1820 Cyclones or 1,000hp Wright GR-1820 Cyclone radials
Maximum speed: 407 km/h (253 mph)
Cruising Speed: 322 km/h (200 mph)
Range: 2575 km (1,600 miles)
Service ceiling: 7100 m (23,300 ft)
Passengers: 18 seated two abreast, 26 can be seated on bench seats with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and light freight
Operators: several airlines including Alaska Star Airlines (1), BEA (4), Canadian Pacific Airlines Ltd (2), Continental (5), Inland Air Lines (1), Mid-Continent Airlines (4), National Airlines (3), Northwest, Pan American Airways (6 Alaska Division only), Trans-Canada Airlines (15) and United (4)
Availability: still in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: a larger development of the Model 14 first flown in September 1937 and offered with a variety of engines. It has a higher twin fin and a revised wing trailing edge.

Type: Nakajima L2N1
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 19.7 m (64 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 29 m (95 ft 1 in)
Height: 5.16 m (16 ft 9 in)
Empty weight: 8300 kg (18,298 lb)
Loaded weight: 11400 kg (25,312 lb)
Powerplant: two 1,200hp Mitsubishi MK1A Shinten radials
Maximum speed: 381 km/h (236 mph)
Range: 1650 km (1,025 miles)
Service ceiling: 7300 m (23,950 ft)
Passengers: 21-32 passengers seated three/ four abreast with toilet aft
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage, freight can be carried on freighter/ military variant with a cargo door in the portside
Operators: including JAL, Lot, IJAAF, Polish Air Force
Availability: Still in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: also built under licence by Polish manufacturer LWS. The L2N1 has been built since 1934.

Type: Ripon C-3
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 18.28 m (60 ft)
Wingspan: 17.06 m (56 ft)
Height: 4.9 m (16 ft 10 in)
Empty weight: 5650 kg (12,455 lb)
Loaded weight: 8420 kg (18,560 lb)
Powerplant: two 710hp Roth 9 cylinder single row radials
Maximum speed: 370 km/h (230 mph)
Range: 1500 km (930 miles)
Service ceiling: 7010 m (23,000 ft)
Passengers: 12 seated two abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: several Atlantean, Colombian and Venezuelan airlines
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: this was the first advanced medium-sized monoplane airliner with retractable undercarriage to be developed in Atlantis. Also in use with the Atlantean Air Force as a transport.

Type: Ripon-Bloch 161
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 24.59 m (80 ft 7in)
Wingspan: 29.39 m (96 ft 5in)
Height: 5.57 m (18 ft 3in)
Empty weight: 12651 kg (27891 lb)
Gross weight: 20577 kg (45320 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,200hp Ripon R-1200-018C radials
Maximum speed: 405 km/h (252 mph)
Range: 1000 km (621 miles)
Service ceiling: 7200 m (23,600 ft)
Passengers: 33 seated three abreast with facilities including toilet and galley
Crew: three flight crew and two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Atlantean Airways
Availability: still in production.
Notes: this was the first four-engined monoplane airliner designed in Atlantis for use on trunk routes to southern Europe and North Africa.

Type: RMI (Repülo Muszaki Intézet or Aviation Technical Institute) RMI-5
Classification: medium-range airliner
Dimensions: Similar to Focke-Wulf Fw-200
Powerplant: four 480hp Argus As.411 inverted-V inline engines
Passengers: 20 seated four abreast with facilities including a galley and toilet
Crew: three flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Malev (10+ on order for delivery from late 1944)
Availability: to enter production during 1944.
Notes: A first flight is planned for 1943.

Type: Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 Marsupiale (Marsupial)
Classification: medium-range airliner
Length: 21.6 m (70 ft 10 in)
Wingspan: 29.68 m (97 ft 4 in)
Height: 5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 118.6 m² (1,276.14 ft²)
Max takeoff weight: 13000 kg (28,600 lb)
Powerplant: three 750hp Alfa Romeo 126RC.34 radials
Maximum speed: 363 km/h (224 mph)
Range: 1,720 km (1,061 miles)
Service ceiling: 6250 m (20,500 ft)
Passengers: 18-25 passengers seated four abreast with facilities including toilet and galley
Crew: four flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: can be used a freighter
Operators: several airlines including Ali Italia, Corpracion Sud-Americana de Servicios Aereos (2) and Royal Thai Airlines (20)
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: this low-wing, tri-motor monoplane has mixed metal and wood construction with a retractable tailwheel undercarriage.

Type: Sopwith Lyfta
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 19.65 m (64 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 29.56 m (97 ft)
Height: 5.27m (17 ft 3 in)
Wing area: 101.26 m² (1,090 ft²)
Loaded weight: 11475 kg (25,300 lb)
Powerplant: two 1,200hp Husquarna H60-58 radials
Maximum speed: 321 km/h (200mph) at 3657 m (12,000 ft)
Range: 1852 km (1,150 miles)
Service ceiling: 6096 m (20,000 ft)
Passengers: 32 seated four abreast
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Nordish airlines and the Royal Nordish Air Force
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market
Notes: this monoplane airliner was first flown in 1935.

Type: Vickers V.C.1 Viking
Classification: medium airliner
Length: 18.6 m (61 ft 10 in)
Wingspan: 27.20 m (89ft 3 in)
Height: 5.97 m (19 ft 7 in)
Wing area: 82m² (882 ft²)
Empty weight: 10430 kg (23,000 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 15240 kg (34,000 lb)
Wing loading: 127 kg/m² (38.5 lb/ft²)
Power/mass: 0.16 kW/kg (0.099 hp/lb)
Powerplant: two 1,770hp Bristol Hercules VIII radials
Maximum speed: 423 km/h (263 mph)
Cruising Speed: 338 km/h (210 mph)
Range: 2414 km (1,500 miles), 2740 km (1,700 miles) with maximum fuel
Service ceiling: 7600 m (25,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 7.6 m/s (1,500 ft/min)
Passengers: 27 seated three abreast with facilities including a galley and toilet
Crew: two flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: BEA (for delivery from early 1944)
Availability: to enter production in early 1944.
Notes: developed to fulfil a BEA requirement for a new medium-range airliner for its European routes this all-metal monoplane should fly in May 1943.

Long-Range Airliners

Type: AeroDynamics Type 13 Skyliner
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 20.45 m (67 ft)
Wingspan: 29.53 m (97 ft)
Height: 4.44 m (14 ft 7 in)
Wing area: 130 m² (1,400 ft²)
Empty weight: 11000 kg (24,250 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 16500 kg (36,375 lb)
Powerplant: four 880hp 9-cyl radials
Maximum speed: 400km/h
Cruising Speed: 340 km/h
Range: 3200km
Service ceiling: 9,000 m (29,520 ft)
Passengers: 20 seated two abreast with facilities including toilet and galley
Crew: five flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: several SAE airlines
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: first flown in May 1935, the AD Type 13 is a modified Type 12 Albatross seaplane with landing gear and other structural changes. Due to its origin as a military aircraft the fuselage is too narrow for four abreast seating but the Type 13 was SAE’s first modern long-range monoplane airliner.

Type: Armstrong Whitworth A.W.27 Ensign
Classification: long-range airliner
Length:
Length: 34.8 m (114 ft)
Wingspan: 37.5 m (123 ft)
Height: 7.02 m (23 ft)
Wing area: 227.6 m² (2,450 ft²)
Wing loading: 110 kg/m² (22.6 lb/ft²)
Empty weight: 15900 kg (35,075 lb)
Loaded weight: 25000 kg (55,500 lb)
Useful load: 5,450 kg (12,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 850hp Armstrong Siddeley Tiger IXC radials
Maximum speed: 330 km/h (210mph)
Cruising Speed: 290 km/h (180 mph)
Range: 2200 km (1,370 miles) at 1500 m (5,000 ft)
Service ceiling: 7300 m (24,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 4.57 m/s (900 ft/min)
Passengers: 40 seated four abreast in four cabins with facilities including toilets and galley, mailplane only carries 24 passengers
Crew: three flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail, mailplane variant carries mail in main cabin
Operators: BOAC (12 all-passenger and 12 passenger-mail)
Availability: No longer in production. Few on second-hand market.
Notes: developed to an Imperial Airways specification to replace the Handley Page Harrow the prototype Ensign first flew in January 1936. The Persian Air Force brought three as Royal Transports.

Type: Avro 685 York
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 23.93 m (78 ft 6in)
Wingspan: 31.09 m (102 ft)
Height: 5.44 m (17 ft 10 in)
Wing area: 120.49m² (1,297 ft²)
Empty weight: 19069 kg (42,040 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 31115 kg (68,597 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,280hp Rolls-Royce Merlin X V-12 inlines
Maximum speed: 480 km/h (298 mph) at 6400 m (21,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 338 km/h (210 mph)
Range: 4747 km (2,950 miles) with maximum fuel; 4345 km (2,700 miles) at normal load
Service ceiling: 7924 m (26,000 ft)
Passengers: 24 in a luxury first class layout two abreast or 36 seated four abreast or 56 in high-density seating five abreast with facilities including a toilet/ washroom and galleys
Crew: four flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only but Avro is developing a cargo variant that can operate either as all-cargo or mix passenger/ freight with a large loading door on the port-side aft.
Operators: BOAC (5 on order for delivery from 1942), BEA (10 on order for delivery from 1942 with a requirement for a 15 more), Trans-Canada Airlines (9 on order for delivery from mid-1942 from Avro Canada), RAF (5 on order), Royal Iraqi Air Force (1 on order)
Availability: In production.
Notes: Designed for BEA as a long-range airliner, first flown July 5th 1941. Roy Chadwick has mated the wing Lancaster of the 683 Lancaster bomber to save development costs and time and the triple tail unit is also very similar.

Type: Bloch MB.970 Transatlantique
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 28.8 m (94 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 36.65 m (120 ft 3 in)
Height: 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Wing area: 144.6 m² ( ft²)
Empty weight: 25,030 kg (55,181.7 lb)
Gross weight: 37,870 kg (83,489 lb)
Powerplant: four 2416hp Clerget 16He diesel engines
Maximum speed: 497 km/h (308 mph)
Cruising speed: 441.5 km/h (274 mph)
Range: 6000 km (3,728 miles)
Service ceiling: 7210 m (23,655 ft)
Rate of Climb: 7 m/s (23 ft/sec)
Passengers: 82 seated four abreast or 62 in sleeper berths with facilities including toilets and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: four flight crew, four cabin crew
Cargo: baggage
Operators: Air France, LAN Airlines (four on order in late 1941)
Availability: To enter production during early 1942.
Notes: the design was optimized to carry a minimum of eighty passengers in a pressurized cabin nonstop from Paris to Cleito, or nonstop from Cleito to New York. Ripon Bloch will also undertake manufacture of this type in Atlantis.

Type: Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 22.66 m (74 ft 4in)
Wingspan: 32.61 m (107 ft)
Height: 6.34 m (20 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 138.05 m² (1,486 ft²)
Empty weight: 13608 kg (30,000 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 20412 kg (45,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 900hp Wright GR-1820 Cyclone radials
Maximum speed: 396 km/h (246 mph)
Cruising Speed: 354 km/h (220 mph)
Range: 3846 km (2,390 miles)
Service ceiling: 7985 m (26,200 ft)
Passengers: 33 seated four abreast, or 16 sleeper berths and 9 recliner berths with facilities including toilets and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: four flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: PanAm (3), TWA (5) and Howard Hughes (1)
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: this airliner is based on the Model 299 with moderate cabin pressurisation for operation above 20,000 feet and the maiden flight was in December 1938.

de Havilland Australia D.H.93 Albatross II
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 21.94 m (72 ft)
Wingspan: 31.09 m (102 ft)
Height: 6.71 m (22 ft)
Wing area: 96 m² (1,040 ft²)
Empty weight: 10886 kg (24,000 lb)
Loaded weight: 16782 kg (37,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 870hp Rolls-Royce Peregrine inlines
Maximum speed: 483 km/h (300 mph)
Cruising Speed: 338 km/h (210 mph)
Range: 38462 km (2,400 miles)
Rate of Climb: 5.08 m/sec (1,000 ft/min)
Service ceiling: 6095 m (20,000 ft)
Passengers: 30 seated four abreast with facilities including toilets and galley
Crew: four flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: QUANTAS
Availability: In production.
Notes: Started as a modified D.H.91 as a maritime patrol aircraft project in 1940, the D.H.93 turned into a completely new aircraft. Unlike the D.H.91 it uses conventional aluminium construction and replaces the Gipsy Majors with more powerful Peregrines to allow greater fuel capacity. It also has a strengthened rear fuselage, third fin and tip tanks. QUANTAS chose the type in early 1942 as an airliner for its international routes.

Type: Douglas DC-4
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 28.63 m (93 ft 11 in)
Wingspan: 35.81 m (117 ft 6 in)
Height: 8.39 m (27 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 135.91 m² (1,463 ft²)
Empty weight: 17237 kg (38,000 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 33112 kg (73,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,350hp Pratt & Whitney R-2000-7 radials
Maximum speed: 441 km/h (274 mph) at 4265 m (14,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 385 km/h (239 mph) at 4635 m (15,200 ft)
Range: 32186 km (2,000 miles) with 9979 kg (22,000 lb) payload
Service ceiling: 6705 m (22,000 ft)
Passengers: 42 seated four abreast with facilities including toilets and galley
Crew: four flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: American, Eastern, PanAm and United (total of 61 on order for delivery from early 1940 for all four airlines)
Availability: In production.
Notes: the DC-4 was developed to meet the needs of American and Eastern Airlines. A tricycle undercarriage is fitted and the fuselage is not pressurised. Frist flown July 1939 and also built for the USAAF as the C-54.

Type: Douglas DC-6
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 28.3 m (93 ft 11 in)
Wingspan: 35.81 m (117 ft 6in)
Height: 8.39 m (27 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 135.91 m² (1,463 ft²)
Empty weight: 25110 kg (55,357 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 48535 kg (107,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 2,100hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radials
Cruising Speed: 507 km/h (315 mph)
Range: 4836 km (3,005 miles)
Service ceiling: 7620 m (25,000 ft)
Passengers: 86 seated four abreast with facilities including toilets and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: four flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: none yet
Availability: to enter production in 1944.
Notes: a pressurised-cabin variant of the DC-4 to fly sometime during 1943 with entry into airline service hopefully for 1944.

Type: E.W.I.L EW-404
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 28.74 m (94 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 35.81 m (117 ft 4in)
Height: 8.4 m (27 ft 5 in)
Wing area: 135.4 m² (1,458 ft²)
Empty weight: 19310 kg (42,571 lb)
Loaded weight: 33110 kg (72,995 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,482hp radials
Maximum Speed: 450 km/h (279 mph)
Cruising Speed: 365 km/h (226 mph)
Range: 6000 km (3,728 miles)
Service ceiling: 6,700 m (21,980 ft)
Passengers: 52 seated four abreast with facilities including toilets and galley
Crew: three flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: Eurasia Aviation Corporation, JAL and Siam (2)
Availability: in production
Notes: the first EW-404 airliners were delivered to Eurasia in December 1936

Type: Focke-Wulf Fw200C Condor
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 23.85 m (78 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 32.99 m (108 ft 2 in)
Height: 5.41 m (17 ft 7in)
Wing area: 120.3m² (1,295 ft²)
Empty weight: 9516 kg (20,979 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 15100 kg (33,289 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,230hp Junkers Motorenbau Jumo 208C 12-cyl diesel engines
Maximum speed: 450 km/h (279 mph)
Cruising Speed: 410 km/h (254 mph) at 4000 m (13,123 ft)
Range: 2000 km (1,242 miles) with maximum 4400 kg (9,700 lb) payload and full fuel load
Service ceiling: 6000 m (19,685 ft)
Initial Rate of Climb: 500 m/min (27 ft/s)
Passengers: forward compartment seats 12, rear compartment seats 18 with facilities including toilet and galley
Crew: three flight crew, one/two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Lufthansa
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: this modern four-engined monoplane airliner was developed to meet Lufthansa’s needs.

Type: Fokker F.21
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 29.83m (97 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 42.16 m (138 ft 3 in)
Height: 7.4 m (24 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 200.2 m² (2,155 ft²)
Empty weight: 19308 kg (42,564 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 30164 kg (66,500 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,400hp Avia-built Bristol Hercules IVC radials
Maximum speed: 394 km/h (245 mph) at 2135 m (7,000 ft)
Range: 3540 km (2,200 miles)
Service ceiling: 6980 m (22,900 ft)
Passengers: 20 seated two abreast in reclining sleepers or 40 in a high-density four abreast layout with facilities including toilet and galley
Crew: four flight crew, one/ two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and light freight
Operators: KLM and KNILM
Availability: No longer in production. Couple on second-hand market.
Notes: developed to meet the needs of KLM and KNILM for a long-range airliner for routes to the Dutch East Indies. Entered service in 1937.

Type: Fokker F.160
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 28.18 m (95 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 53 m (173 ft 10 in)
Wing area: 454 m² (4,887 ft²)
Empty weight: 24400 kg (53,792 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 46500 kg (102,513 lb)
Powerplant: five 950hp Mercedes-Benz DB.600H V-12 inlines
Maximum speed: 440 km/h (274 mph)
Cruising Speed: 330 km/h (205 mph)
Range: 6000 km (3,728 miles)
Service ceiling: 8534 m (28,000 ft)
Passengers: 26 seated six abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: four flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: KLM
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: this novel design is a flying wing with five engines, four in the inner wings and one in the centre section. The passengers are housed in the centre section of the wing and a twin tail is carried on two booms. It was designed for transatlantic routes. First flown in 1937 and entered limited service with KLM in 1939.

Type: FMA I.Ae 7
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 25 m (82 ft)
Wingspan: 32 m (104 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 120.77 m² (1,300 ft²)
Loaded weight: 19050 kg (42,500 lb) short haul
Powerplant: four 1,380hp Bristol Hercules IVC radials
Maximum speed: 442 km/h (275 mph) at 3962 m (13,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 362 km (225 mph) at 60% rated power
Range: 2735 km (1,700 miles) with full fuel load in still air at 50% rated power
Service ceiling: 7924 m (26,000 ft)
Passengers: 36 seated four-abreast with facilities including a toilet and galley
Crew: four flight crew and two cabin crew
Cargo: can carry up to 4309 kg (9,500lb) of cargo over 804 km (500 miles) or 2041 kg (4,500 lb) over 2735 km (1,700 miles)
Operators: Aeravias Argentinas S.A. (10) and LAN Chile (6)
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: developed to the specifications of Aeravias Argentinas S.A. in late 1936. This is the biggest aircraft yet attempted in Argentina and is technically equal to any type available from Europe. Ten have been ordered by Aeravias Argentinas S.A. off the drawing board. It features twin fins and tailwheel undercarriage. An improved variant with a pressurised cabin has not yet left the drawing board and work has stalled although Aeravias Argentinas and LAN are interested in such a development.

Type: Handley PageH.P.54 Harrow
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 25.04 m (82 ft 2in)
Wingspan: 26.95 m (88 ft 5 in)
Height: 5.92 m (19ft 5 in)
Wing area: 101.26m² (1,090 ft²)
Empty weight: 6169 kg (13,600 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 10433 kg (23,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 850hp Bristol Pegasus VII radials
Maximum speed: 305 km/h (190 mph)
Cruising Speed: 262 km/h (163 mph) at 4570 m (15,000 ft)
Range: 2012 km (1,250 miles)
Service ceiling: 5852 m (19,200 ft)
Passengers: 20 seated two abreast or fourteen day/ night berths
Crew: four flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only and 227 kg (500 lb) of mail
Operators: BOAC (4)
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: Seven of these large high-wing monoplane airliners were built for Imperial Airways in 1933.

Type: Handley Page H.P.66 Hermes
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 29.52 m (96 ft 10 in)
Wingspan: 34.45 m (113 ft)
Height: 9.15 m (30 ft)
Wing area: 130.85 m² (1,408.0 ft²)
Empty weight: 25159 kg (55,350 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 39,092 kg (86,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,690hp Bristol Hercules IX radials
Maximum speed: 547 km/h (340 mph)
Cruising Speed: 418 km/h (260 mph) at 6096 m (20,000 ft)
Range: 5291 km (1,610 miles) with maximum payload, 3242 km (2,000 miles) with 6420 kg (14,125 lb) payload, 5536 km (3,440 miles) with maximum fuel
Service ceiling: 7315 m (24,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 314 m/min (1,030 ft/min)
Passengers: 50 seated six abreast in a pressurised cabin with facilities including toilets/ washroom and galleys, 40 can be seated in a luxury first class only layout four abreast
Crew: five flight crew and two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only in airliner but as a freighter it can carry up to 8073 kg (17,800 lb)
Operators: BOAC (20+ on order for delivery from mid/l late-1943)
Availability: to enter production in mid-1943.
Notes: developed for BOAC in both 50 passenger and cargo variants with a pressurised cabin and tricycle undercarriage. First flight planned for late 1942.
The Handley Page H.P.74 Hermes II development powered by four 2,585hp Bristol Centaurus VI radials seating 63 passengers is planned to fly in 1944. Maximum speed will be 563 km/h (350mph).

Type: Junkers Ju390A
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 32.5 m (106 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 35.8 m (117 ft 4 in)
Height: 8.66 m (28 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 135.75 m² (1,453 ft²)
Maximum gross takeoff weight: 40550 kg (89,397 lb)
Powerplant: four 2,100hp Brandenburgische Motorenbau 328 18-cylradials
Maximum speed: 534 km/h (331 mph) 7600 m (24,934 ft)
Cruising Speed: 445 km/h (276 mph)
Range: 5500 km (3,417 miles) with 8800 kg (19,400 lb) payload
Passengers: 58 seated four abreast, 72 in high-density layout with facilities including toilets and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: four flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: Lufthansa
Availability: In production.
Notes: now entering service with Lufthansa

Type: Lockheed Model 49 Constellation
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 29.01 m (95 ft 2 in)
Wingspan: 37.49 m (123 ft)
Height: 7.21 m (23 ft 8 in)
Wing area: 153.29 m² (1,650 ft²)
Empty weight: 22906 kg (50,500 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 32659 kg (72,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 2,200hp Wright R-3350-35 Cyclone radials
Maximum speed: 531 km/h (330 mph)
Cruising Speed: 483 km/h (300 mph)
Range: 3862 km (2,400 miles)
Service ceiling: 7620 m (25,000 ft)
Passengers: 60 seated four abreast or 22 sleeping berths, facilities include toilets and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: four flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage
Operators: TWA (40 on order for delivery from mid-1942)
Availability: to enter production in early-1942.
Notes: this large pressurised four-engined airliner has a triple tail unit and was developed to meet the needs of TWA for a trans-continental airliner. The prototype first flew on 9 January 1940.

Type: Nakajima L5N1
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 29.83 m (97 ft 8 in)
Wingspan: 42.16 m (138 ft 8 in)
Height: 7.4 m (24 ft 2 in)
Empty weight: 19308 kg (42,566 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 27896 kg (61,500 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,400hp KHI-107 V-12 inlines
Maximum speed: 385 km/h (239 mph)
Service ceiling: 6980 m (22,900 ft)
Range: 3540 km (2,200 miles)
Passengers: 42-52 seated four abreast with facilities including toilets and galley in a pressurised fuselage
Crew: three flight crew, one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage, the cabin can be configured as a mixed passenger/ freight layout and a cargo door is fitted as standard
Operators: JAL and the Eurasia Aviation Corporation
Availability: still in production.
Notes: developed from the Nakajima L2N1 this four-engined airliner entered JAL service in 1938 and has a pressurised cabin. Many sub-assemblies are carried over from the L2N1.

Type: Piaggio P.108C
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 22 m (72 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 32 m (104 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 135m² (1,453 ft²)
Empty weight: 16500 kg 36,376 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 29500 kg (65,036 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,500hp Piaggio P.XII RC.35 radials or 1,700hp Alfa Romeo 135 RC.9/47 radials
Maximum speed: 470 km/h (292 mph)
Cruising Speed: 425 km/h (264 mph)
Range: 5000 km (3,106 miles)
Service ceiling: 8700 m (28,543 ft)
Passengers: 32 seated four abreast, 60 in high-density layout facilities include toilet and galley
Crew: five flight crew/ one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: several Italian airlines and the Eurasia Aviation Corporation (10)
Availability: Still in production.
Notes: the first monoplane four-engined long-range airliner built in Italy.

Type: Piaggio P.126C
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 25 m (82 ft)
Wingspan: 33 m (108 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 135m² (1,453 ft²)
Empty weight: 18000 kg (39,683 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 32000 kg (70,547 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,500hp Piaggio P.XII RC.35 radials or 1,700hp Alfa Romeo 135 RC.9/47 radials
Maximum speed: 440 km/h (273 mph)
Cruising Speed: 420 km/h (260 mph)
Range: 6000 km (3,728 miles)
Service ceiling: 7200 m (23,622 ft)
Passengers: 40 seated four abreast, 80 in high-density layout on two decks, facilities include toilet and galley
Crew: five flight crew/ one cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: several Italian airlines and the Eurasia Aviation Corporation (10)
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: features a semi-flying boat hull for safety over long overwater routes and twin decks.

Type: Short S.32 Sandringham
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 27.7 m (90 ft 9 in)
Wingspan: 38.89 m (127 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 187.66 m² (2,020 ft²)
Empty weight: 17710 kg (39,050 lb)
All-Up weight: 32210 kg (71,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,380hp Bristol Hercules IVC radial engines
Maximum speed: 442 km/k (275mph)
Range: 5471 km (3,400 miles)
Service ceiling: 7924 m (26,000 ft)
Passengers: 36 passengers seated four abreast, facilities include toilet and galley
Crew: five flight crew and two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: BOAC (20)
Availability: In limited production.
Notes: developed for Imperial Airways for Transatlantic and Middle Eastern routes. It has a tailwheel undercarriage and twin fins. First flight was 11 June 1937 and entry into Imperial Airways service took place in mid-1939.

Type: Short S.32 Sandringham II
Classification: long-range airliner
Length: 27.7 m (90 ft 9 in)
Wingspan: 38.89 m (127 ft 6 in)
Wing area: 187.66 m² (2,020 ft²)
Empty weight: 17710 kg (39,050 lb)
All-Up weight: 32210 kg (71,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,380hp Bristol Hercules IVC radial engines
Maximum speed: 531 km/h (330 mph) at 7620 m (25,000 ft)
Range: 5471 km (3,400 miles)
Service ceiling:
Passengers: 36 passengers seated four abreast and facilities include toilet and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: five flight crew and two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: BOAC (20 on order for delivery from late 1941)
Availability: In production.
Notes: an improved variant of the S.32 with a pressurised cabin and minor improvements.

Very-Long Range Airliners

Type: Avro 688 Tudor
Classification: very long-range and transatlantic airliner
Length: 32.21 m (105 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 36.58 m (120 ft)
Wing loading: 261 kg/m² (53.5 lb/ft²)
Height: 6.71 m (22 ft)
Wing area: 132 m² ( 1,421 ft²)
Loaded weight: 30000 kg (66,000 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 34,500 kg (76,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,650hp Napier-Paxman Pilates III V-12 inline diesel engines
Maximum speed: 512 km/h (320 mph) at 2,440 m (8,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 453 km/h (283 mph) at 3,660 m (12,000 ft)
Range: 6759 km (4,200 miles)
Service ceiling: 9,180 m (30,100 ft)
Rate of climb: 5 m/s (990 ft/min)
Passengers: 24 in day/ night berths or 60 seated four/five abreast in a pressurised cabin with facilities including toilets/ washroom and galleys
Crew: five flight crew and two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage with one mail compartment aft of the flight deck
Operators: BOAC (24 on order for delivery from 1943)
Availability: to enter production in early-1943.
Notes: designed by Roy Chadwick for BOAC as a long-range airliner for its Colonial routes and the North Atlantic route using the wing of the York with refinements and first flown in June 1942.
Avro 689 Tudor II, planned to fly in 1943 with a new broad-chord fin, a 32.91 m (108 ft) span wing, powered by four 1,770hp Bristol Hercules XXII radials for BEA. All-Up weight is 36,287 kg (80,000 lb).

Type: Bloch MB.972 Transatlantique
Classification: very long-range airliner
Length: 30.6 m (100 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 36.65 m (120 ft 3 in)
Height: 7.94 m (26 ft 0 in)
Wing area: 144.6 m² ( ft²)
Empty weight: 25,030 kg (55,181.7 lb)
Gross weight: 45,820 kg (101,015.8 lb)
Powerplant: four 2,416hp Clerget 16He diesel engines
Maximum speed: 545 km/h (339 mph)
Cruise speed: 493 km/h (306 mph) at 7,250m cruising altitude
Range: 7440 km (4,623 miles)
Service ceiling: 8750 m (28,707 ft)
Rate of Climb: 7.5 m/s (24.6 ft/sec)
Passengers: 82 seated four abreast or 62 sleeper berths with facilities including toilets/ washrooms and galley
Crew: four flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: Air France (on order for delivery from 1942), Atlantean Imperial Airlines, LAN Airlines, Aeroflot
Availability: to enter production in early-1942.
Notes: the Bloch MB.972 should enter service in 1942. It is a further developed MB.970 Transatlantique with Paris-to-New York range without stops. The fuselage is lengthened, the wings are extended and there is more passenger capacity.

Type: Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser
Classification: very long-range airliner
Length: 33.63 m (110 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 43.05 m (141 ft 3 in)
Wing area: 164.34 m² (1,769 ft²)
Empty weight: 38511 kg (84,900 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 66315 kg (148,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 2,325hp Wright R-3350-57A Cyclone radials or the new 3,500hp Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Double Wasp may be used
Cruising Speed: 483-547 km/h (300-340 mph)
Range: 6759 km (4,200 miles)
Passengers: 55-100 passengers on the upper deck or 28 upper and 28 lower sleeping berths, 14 seats on the lower deck or an in-flight bar, facilities include galley and toilets/ washrooms in a pressurised cabin
Crew: five flight crew, three cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail and light freight
Operators: none yet
Availability: to enter production in 1945.
Notes: a proposed airliner variant of the Model 367 XC-97 transport which uses the wings, nacelles, undercarriage and tail of the new Model 345 B-29 bomber. A first flight could take place as early as mid-1944.

Type: Consolidated-Vultee Model 39
Classification: very-long range airliner
Length: 27.4 m (90 ft)
Wingspan: 33.53 m (110 ft)
Height: 7.9 m (26 ft)
Wing area: 97.36 m² (1,048 ft²)
Loaded weight: 24960 kg (56,000 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 28150-29100 kg (62,000-64,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,200hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830-43 Twin Wasp
Cruising Speed: 384 km/h (240 mph)
Range: 6400 km (4,000 miles) at 320 km/h (200 mph)
Service ceiling: 8534 m (28,000 ft)
Passengers: 48 seated four abreast with facilities including toilets and galley in a pressurised cabin
Crew: four flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: up to 545 kg (1,200 lb) of baggage and mail, a freighter version could carry up to 5450 kg (12,000 lb) in the main cabin with a cargo door in the rear portside
Operators: PanAm (20 on order for delivery during 1942) and United (20 on order for delivery during 1942)
Availability: to enter production in early 1942.
Notes: the Model 39 uses the wings, engines and undercarriage of the Model 32 B-24 bomber married to a new pressurised fuselage. The first flight was in June 1941.

Type: Focke-Wulf Fw205
Classification: very long-range airliner
Length: 23.5 m (77 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 35.05 m (115 ft)
Wing area: 135.08 m² (1,454 ft²)
Empty weight: 16383 kg (36,120 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 27442 kg (60,500 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,223hp Junkers Motorenbau Jumo 208C
Maximum speed: 447 km/h (278 mph) at 3657 m (12,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 333 km/h (207 mph) at 3657 m (12,000 ft)
Range: 6949 km (4,318 miles)
Service ceiling: 7620 m (25,000 ft)
Passengers: 26 seated four abreast with facilities including toilet and galley
Crew: four flight crew, four cabin crew
Cargo:
Operators: The Eurasia Aviation Corporation (20)
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: first flown in 1936, the Fw205 is a heavier, longer-winged, longer-ranged version of the Fw200 designed to fly the Berlin-New York route with sufficient fuel reserves for safety purposes.

Flying Boats

Type: Blohm und Voss Bv222 Wiking
Classification: long-range flying boat
Length: 32 m (104 ft 9 in)
Wingspan: 48 m (157 ft 4 in)
Height: 11.2 m (36 ft 7 in)
Wing area: 255m² (2,750 ft²)
Empty weight: 30650 kg (67,571 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 49000 kg (108,026 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,620hp Junkers Motorenbau 208F radial diesel engines
Maximum speed: 390 km/h (242 mph) at 5000m (16,404 ft)
Cruising Speed: 300 km/h (186 mph) at 5000m (16,404 ft)
Range: 6099 km (3,789 miles)
Initial Rate of Climb: 144 m/min (7.8 ft/sec)
Passengers: accommodation on two decks for 54 in day/night berths and facilities include a lounge seating 12, galley and toilets/ washrooms
Crew: nine flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and freight up to 6000 kg (13,227 lb) total
Operators: Lufthansa (8)
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: developed for Lufthansa’s transatlantic routes. The maximum endurance is 28 hours. Production has now ended.

Type: Boeing Model 314 Clipper
Classification: long-range flying boat
Length: 32.31 m (106 ft)
Wingspan: 46.33 m (152 ft)
Height: 8.41 m (27 ft 7 in)
Wing area: 266.34 m² (2,867 ft²)
Empty weight: 22801 kg (50,268 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 37421 kg (82,500 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,600hp Wright R-2600 Double Cyclone radials
Maximum speed: 311 km/h (193 mph) at 3050 m (10,000 ft)
Cruising Speed: 295 km/h (183 mph)
Range: 5633 km (3,500 miles)
Service ceiling: 4085 m (13,400 ft)
Passengers: 68 day passengers or 36 night passengers with facilities including lounge, galley, toilets/ washrooms
Crew: six flight crew, four/five cabin crew
Cargo: 4536 kg (10,000 lb) of baggage and mail in bow and dorsal compartments
Operators: PanAm (9)
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: developed to meet the needs of Pan American and first flown in 1936.

Type: Consolidated-Vultee Model 31 Streamclipper
Classification: long-range flying boat
Length: 22.58 m (74 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 33.53 m (110 ft)
Height: 7.67 m (25 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 97.36 m² (1,048 ft²)
Empty weight: 13306 kg (29,334 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 21772 kg (48,000 lb)
Powerplant: two 2,300hp Wright R-3350-8 Cyclone radials
Maximum speed: 398 km/h (247 mph) at 4145 m (13,600 ft)
Cruising Speed: 219 km/h (136 mph)
Range: 5279 km (3,280 miles)
Service ceiling: 6520 m (21,400 ft)
Passengers: 48 day passengers or 32 night passengers, facilities include galley and toilets/washrooms
Crew: six flight crew, four cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: PanAm (10)
Availability: No longer in production but could be re-started.
Notes: this four-engined twin-fin flying boat has a high aspect-ratio wing of constant taper designed by David R. Davis to reduce drag at high and low speeds with low drag co-efficient. The private-venture prototype first flew in May 1937.

Type: de Havilland Canada DHC-119 Mink
Classification: very long-range flying boat
Length: 14.63 m (48 ft)
Wingspan: 39.9 m (131 ft)
Height: 4.87 m (16 ft)
Wing area: 169.54 m² (1,825 ft²)
Empty weight: 12488 kg (27,532 lb)
Loaded weight: 24947 kg (55,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,250hp Napier-Paxman Pilates IIC inline diesels
Maximum speed: 465 km/h (289 mph)
Range: 9765 km (6,068 miles) at 352 km/h (219 mph)
Service ceiling: 8686 m (28,500 ft)
Passengers: 16 in day/ sleeper berths with facilities including a dining room/ lounge, two toilets and galley
Crew: five flight crew, two cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: Trans-Canada Airlines (6 on order for delivery from 1941)
Availability: In production.
Notes: designed by Professor Geoffrey Hill to his novel flying wing ideas and the prototype first flew during 1940. It also forms the basis of the DHC CPB-15 Ornithocheirus military patrol flying boat.

Type: Dornier Do25
Classification: amphibian
Length: 11.7 m (38 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 14.95 m (49 ft)
Height: 4.57 m (15 ft)
Empty weight: 2461 kg (5425 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 3629 kg (8000 lb)
Powerplant: two 590hp Brandenburgische Motorenbau 322 radials
Maximum speed: 350 km/h (217 mph)
Cruising Speed: 320 km/h (198 mph)
Range: 1280 km (795 miles)
Service ceiling: 6400 m (20,997 ft)
Passengers: 6 seated two abreast
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage only
Operators: none yet
Availability: In production.
Notes: first flown in 1941

Type: Douglas Dolphin
Classification: amphibian
Length: 13.74 m (45 ft 1 in)
Wingspan: 18.29 m (60 ft)
Height: 4.27 m (14 ft)
Wing area: 55 m² (592 ft²)
Empty weight: 3175 kg (7,000 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 4323 kg (9,530 lb)
Powerplant: two 450hp Pratt & Whitney R-340 Wasp radials
Maximum speed: 251 km/h (156 mph)
Cruising Speed: 217 km/h (135 mph)
Range: 1159 km (720 miles)
Service ceiling: 5180 m (17,000 ft)
Passengers: 6 seated two abreast
Crew: two flight crew
Cargo: baggage or light freight in cabin
Operators: several small amphibian airlines or pleasure flight companies, surveying companies, USAAF, USN and USCG
Availability: No longer in production. Several on the second-hand market.
Notes: has a high-set monoplane with two radial engines on top of the wing, first flown in 1928 and production now ended.

Type: Fokker F.122
Classification: long-range flying boat
Length: 42.3 m (138 ft 9 in)
Wingspan: 48 m (157 ft 5 in)
Height: 7.9 m (25 ft 11 in)
Wing area: 310 m² (3,337 ft²)
Loaded weight: 85000 kg (18,730 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,230hp Junkers Motorenbau Jumo 208C 12-cyl diesel engines
Maximum speed: 490 km/h (304 mph)
Range: 4500 km (2,794 miles) with normal payload, 6700 km (4,150 miles) with maximum fuel
Passengers: 48 seated four abreast with facilities including dining room, toilets/ washrooms and galley
Crew: five flight crew, four cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and light freight
Operators: KLM
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: this is the civil variant of the T.14W flying boat developed for KLM for passenger and package deliveries from the Netherlands to Africa, Asia and South America, from Grand Uruguay to the Moluccas. Designed by Fokker, the hull was designed and built by Dornier, with first delivery in May of 1936.

Type: Latécoère Late-631
Classification: long-range flying boat
Length: 43.46 m (142 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 57.43 m (188 ft 4 in)
Height: 10.1 m (33 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 349.4 m² (3,760 ft²)
Wing loading: 92.7 kg/m² (19.0 lb/ft²)
Empty weight: 32400 kg (71,280 lb)
Loaded weight: 71350 kg (137,300 lb)
Powerplant: six 1,600hp Gnome-Rhone 14R radials
Maximum speed: 394 km/h (245 mph)
Cruise speed: 297 km/h (185 mph)
Range: 6035 km (3,750 miles)
Passengers: 46 seated four abreast with facilities including dining room, toilets/ washrooms and galley
Crew: five flight crew, six cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: Air France
Availability In production.
Notes: introduced 1941

Type: Marwijk Clipper
Classification: long-range flying boat
Length: 27.7 m (90 ft 10 in)
Wingspan: 39.7 m (130 ft)
Height: 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Max takeoff weight: 23701 kg (52,252 lb)
Powerplant: four 1040hp BMG Double Lynx radials
Maximum speed: 290 km/h (180 mph)
Cruising Speed: 209 km/h (130 mph)
Range: 5150 km (3,200 miles)
Service ceiling: 3048 m (10,000 ft)
Passengers: 36 day passengers with provision for 18 sleeping berths with facilities including dining room, toilets/ washrooms and galley
Crew: six flight crew and three cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mails
Operators: Trans Oceanic Airlines (4 on order for delivery from late-1942)
Availability: to enter production in late-1942.
Notes: developed by Marwijk for Trans Oceanic Airlines, the prototype should fly in 1941. The Argentine firm IMPA (Compania Industria Metalurgica & Plastica S.A.) builds the wings.

Type: Short S.23 Empire C-Class
Classification: long-range flying boat
Length: 26.82m (88 ft)
Wingspan: 34.75 m (114 ft)
Height: 9.70 m (31 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 139.35m² (1,500 ft²)
Empty weight: 10659 kg (23,500 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 18370 kg (40,500 lb)
Powerplant: the entire fleet was upgraded from 1941 with four 1,010hp Bristol Pegasus XII radials
Maximum speed: 322 km/h (200 mph)
Range: 2912 km (1,810 miles) as upgraded from 1940, 1303 km (810 miles) as designed
Service ceiling: 6100 m (20,000 ft)
Passengers: 17 day or 12 night passengers with dining facilities, toilets/ washrooms and galley
Crew: five flight crew and five cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: BOAC (21)
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: built to an Imperial Airways requirement for a new generation of general flying boats the first entered service in 1935. Seventeen day or twelve night passengers are carried. Imperial Airways has ordered 12 aircraft. Dimensions; 114/ 88/ 31.9/ 1,500 sq ft; 4x 950hp Bristol Pegasus XC; max speed 200mph; range 810 miles and service ceiling 20,000ft. From 1940 the fleet was upgraded with engines and a strengthened hull to increase range to 1,810 miles.

Type: Short S.26 G-Class
Classification: long-range flying boat
Length: 30.89 m (101 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 40.94 m (134 ft 4 in)
Height: 11.46 m (37 ft 7 in)
Wing area: 200.66m² (2,160 ft²)
Empty weight: 17103 kg (37,705 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 33793 kg (74,500 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,380hp Bristol Hercules IVC radials
Maximum speed: 336 km/h (209 mph) at 1675 m (5,500 ft)
Cruising Speed: 290 km/h (180 mph) at 2285 m (7,000 ft)
Range: 5150 km (3,200 miles)
Service Ceiling: 6705 m (22,000 ft)
Passengers: 24 in day/ night berths with dining facilities and toilets/ washrooms
Crew: five flight crew and six cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mails
Operators: BOAC (3)
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: designed with the range to fly from Foynes in Ireland and New York without refuelling. 3,600 gallons of fuel is carried in the wing. First flown in July 1937, Imperial Airways ordered three named Golden Hind, Golden Fleece and Golden Horn.

Type: Short S.35 S-Class
Classification: very long-range flying boat
Length: 32.91 m (108 ft)
Wingspan: 46.75 m (150 ft 4 in)
Height: 11.7 m (38 ft 8in)
Wing area: 244.9m² (1,636 ft²)
Empty weight: 34410 kg (75,860 lb)
Loaded weight: 54431 kg (120,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 2,625hp Bristol Centaurus XI radials
Maximum speed: 429 km/h (267 mph)
Range: 7483 km (4,650 miles) with3456 kg (7,620 lb) payload, 3340 km (2,076 miles) with 13619 kg (30,025lb) maximum payload
Service ceiling: 5180 m (17,000 ft)
Initial rate of climb: 201 m/s (660ft/min)
Passengers: 40 day passengers seated four abreast and 24 sleeping berths with dining, washroom and galley facilities. The maximum number of passengers is 70 seated in high density six abreast
Crew: five flight crew and six cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail, as a pure freighter up to 13619 kg (30,025lb) can be carried
Operators: BOAC (10 airliner and 5 cargo S-Class on order for delivery from 1944). First flight due June 1943.
Availability: to enter production in 1944.
Notes: developed for BOAC to replace the G Class from late-1940 when the design contract was awarded to Shorts. The first flight is due in June 25 1943.

Type: Short S.45 Solent Class
Classification: long-range flying boat
Length: 27 m (88 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 34.39 m (112 ft 9 in)
Height: 11.36 m (37 ft 3 in)
Wing area: 156.8 m² (1,687 sq ft)
Empty weight: 20455 kg (45,000 lb)
Loaded weight: 34090 kg (75,000 lb)
Powerplant: four 1,770hp Bristol Hercules XXII radials
Maximum speed: 389 km/h (242 mph) at 150 m (500 ft)
Cruising Speed: 250 km/h (155 mph)
Range: 4991 km (3,100 miles)
Service ceiling: 7620 m (25,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 4.5 m/s (880 ft/min)
Climb to 3,050 m (10,000 ft): 18 min
Passengers: 30 day passengers seated four abreast or 24 day/night berths, facilities include toilets/ washrooms, dining room and galley. Up to 39 day passengers can be carried seated five abreast.
Crew: four flight crew and three cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mails
Operators: BOAC (37 on order for delivery from 1943)
Availability: to enter production in early 1943.
Notes: based on the Sunderland Mk V to replace the C Class flying boats. The Solent Class is spilt into three variants; Solent 1 for 30 day passengers, Solent 2 for 24 day/night or 30 day passengers and the Solent 3 for 39 day passengers.

Type: Thomson-Martinez-Doorman TMD Mariner Model 420
Classification: medium-range flying boat
Length: 19.98 m (65 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 28.56 m (93 ft 7 in)
Height: 7.15 m (23 ft 4 in)
Powerplant: four 750hp Stuart Burro A V-12 inlines
Maximum speed: 318 km/h (197 mph)
Range: 2000 km (1242 miles)
Passengers: 20 seated four abreast with facilities including dining room, toilets/ washroom and galley
Crew: four flight crew and three cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: Starflier (7)
Availability: No longer in production.
Notes: First flown September 1937 and developed for Starflier. Has a parasol monoplane wing and all-metal construction. Nine were built; one was lost in an accident.

Type: Thomson-Martinez-Doorman TMD Mariner Model 426
Classification: medium-range flying boat
Length: 21.17 m (69 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 31.72 m (104 ft)
Height: 7.15 m (23 ft 4 in)
Powerplant: four 860hp Stuart Burro B V-12 inlines
Maximum speed: 330 km/h (205 mph)
Range: 2400 km (1491 miles)
Passengers: 26 seated four abreast with facilities including dining room, toilets/ washroom and galley
Crew: four flight crew and three cabin crew
Cargo: baggage and mail
Operators: Trans Oceanic Airlines (12 on order for delivery from mid-1941)
Availability: In production.
Notes: a development of the Model 420 for Trans Oceanic Airlines with an enlarged cabin for six more passengers and a new wing housing extra fuel for more range. First flown in January 1940. In production.

Very thorough. An excellent job.

Two small items though - the Dornier Do25 is already in porduction; it's mostly for the private rather than airline market, and while the line for the Fw200 Condor could be restarted, it is not currently in production. But these are small things.

Shiny!

The Boeing 307 will probably stay in production, as Aeromexico will be buying some (might have bought some already).

Good work !!!! Excellent job !!!

So the airlines of the world could use this list, for ordering the right aircrafts

Could a mod sticky this thread for ease of reference?

I've added the MAC-2 Hayabusa on the latest update.