Cessna 400

what is it?

The Cessna 400, marketed as the Cessna Corvalis, is a single-engine, fixed-gear, low-wing general aviation aircraft built from composite materials by Cessna Aircraft. The Cessna 400 was originally built by Columbia Aircraft as the Columbia 400 until December 2007. From 2013, the aircraft was built as the Cessna T240 Corvalis TTx.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 435 km/htop speed
• range 2,050 kmwithout refuelling
• seats 3passengers
• size 1,633 kgmax take-off weight

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 26 years ago, in 2000.
• 🏎️Top speed is 3.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 2,050 km: 11× Amsterdam to Brussels.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

2000-06

introduced

2000

number built

—

role

civil personal transportation aircraft

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

Cessna

engines

1× Teledyne Continental TSIO-550-C

crew

1

passengers

3

length

7.7 m

wingspan

11 m

height

2.7 m

max take-off weight

1,633 kg

top speed

435 km/h

cruise speed

435 km/h

range

2,050 km

ceiling

7,620 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.