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Boeing 377 Stratocruiser

Boeing. A piston airliner.

Seats

Mixed 64, Dense 84

Range

5,800 km

Cruise

480 km/h

Payload

10,000 kg

Take off run

1,900 m

Fuel burn

1,250 kg per block hour

Reference price

$1,250,000 in 1947 dollars

Enters service

1949-04-01

Confidence

estimated (to be verified)

Source: Entered service 1 April 1949 with Pan Am; MTOW 67,132 kg; up to 100 seats plus 14 in the lower lounge; Pan Am's launch order was 24.5 million dollars for 20 aircraft; BOAC flew 377s on the Atlantic by the end of 1949 (Wikipedia, Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_377_Stratocruiser).