Handley Page Hermes IV

Handley Page. A piston airliner.

Seats: Mixed 64, Tourist 72
Range: 3,800 km
Cruise: 430 km/h
Payload: 7,500 kg
Take off run: 1,500 m
Fuel burn: 900 kg per block hour
Reference price: $560,000 in 1947 dollars
Enters service: 1950-08-06
Production ends: 1952-12-31
Confidence: estimated (to be verified)

Source: BOAC service from 6 August 1950 on the West Africa route; cruise 428 to 441 km/h; MTOW 37,195 kg; 40 to 82 seats; 25 Hermes IV built; sold on to independents (Wikipedia, Handley Page Hermes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_Hermes). Range, price and end of production are estimates.