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de Havilland Canada DHC-8 Dash 8

de Havilland Canada. A turboprop airliner.

Seats

Standard 37

Range

1,700 km

Cruise

500 km/h

Payload

4,000 kg

Take off run

1,000 m

Fuel burn

530 kg per block hour

Reference price

$7,000,000 in 1985 dollars

Enters service

1980-09-01

Confidence

estimated (to be verified)

Source: Specifications from the type article on en.wikipedia.org as read in era5-aircraft.md; price is an estimate; fuel burn, crew and maintenance cost per hour follow the ATA operating statistics where the type has a row, else analogy.