Convair CV-240
Convair. A piston airliner.
- Seats
- Mixed 40
- Range
- 1,900 km
- Cruise
- 420 km/h
- Payload
- 4,000 kg
- Take off run
- 1,100 m
- Fuel burn
- 500 kg per block hour
- Reference price
- $380,000 in 1947 dollars
- Enters service
- 1948-02-29
- Confidence
- estimated (to be verified)
Source: First flight 16 March 1947; entered service 29 February 1948 with American Airlines; 40 seats; gross weight 18,370 kg; range about 1,900 km (Wikipedia, Convair CV-240, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_CV-240). KLM and Swissair flew the type. Price and costs are estimates.