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Airspeed Ambassador

Airspeed. A piston airliner.

Seats

Mixed 48, Tourist 58

Range

1,900 km

Cruise

430 km/h

Payload

4,500 kg

Take off run

1,200 m

Fuel burn

520 kg per block hour

Reference price

$520,000 in 1947 dollars

Enters service

1952-03-13

Production ends

1953-12-31

Confidence

estimated (to be verified)

Source: First flight 10 July 1947; MTOW 23,587 kg; BEA ordered 20 for 3 million pounds in September 1948; entered service in 1952 as the Elizabethan class; 23 built (Wikipedia, Airspeed Ambassador, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspeed_Ambassador). The 13 March 1952 start date is an estimate; the page gives only the year.