Short Solent

Short Brothers. A piston airliner.

Seats: Mixed 34, Dense 44
Range: 2,900 km
Cruise: 390 km/h
Payload: 5,000 kg
Take off run: 1,200 m
Fuel burn: 900 kg per block hour
Reference price: $650,000 in 1947 dollars
Enters service: 1948-05-01
Production ends: 1950-12-31
Confidence: estimated (to be verified)

Source: Cruise 244 mph, range 1,800 miles, gross weight 78,000 lb, 34 seats on the Solent II; BOAC Solents flew Southampton to Johannesburg from 1948 to 10 November 1950 (Wikipedia, Short Solent, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Solent). The May 1948 start is an estimate; price is an estimate.