Ford Trimotor - Specifications (Ford 5-AT Trimotor)

Specifications (Ford 5-AT Trimotor)

General characteristics

• Crew: 3 (1 Flight attendant)
• Capacity: 10 passengers

• Cost: $42,000 in 1933

• Length: 50 ft 3 in (15.32 m)
• Wingspan: 77 ft 10 in (23.72 m)
• Height: 12 ft 8 in (3.86 m)
• Wing area: 835 ft² (77.6 m²)
• Empty weight: 7,840 lb (3,560 kg)
• Loaded weight: 10,130 lb (4,590 kg)
• Max. takeoff weight: 13,500 lb (6,120 kg

• Fuel capacity: normally 230 U.S. gallons (886 liters)
• Fuel consumption: about 45 gallons per hour (173 litres per hour))

• Powerplant: 3 × Pratt & Whitney Wasp C 9-cylinder radial engines, 420 hp (313 kW) each

Performance

• Maximum speed: 150 mph (241 km/h, 130 kts)
• Cruise speed: 90 mph (145 km/h, 78 kts)
• Stall speed: 64 mph (103 km/h, 56 kts)
• Range: 550 mi (885 km, 478 nm)
• Service ceiling: 18,500 ft (5,640 m)
• Rate of climb: ft/min (m/s)
• Wing loading: 16.17 lb/ft² (78.87 kg/m²)
• Power/mass: 10.71 lb/hp (6.52 kg/kW)