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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Cessna 425 Corsair - Conquest I: Roger Oldfield· GFDL
- 2. The Cessna 425 Corsair (544365691): Cory W. Watts from Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. LN-AFB Cessna 425 Conquest and G-BHLY · Sikorsky S-76A · Bristow Helicopters Ltd NCL 160883 (51351669850): Steve Knight from Halstead, United Kingdom· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The Cessna 425, known as the Corsair and later as the Conquest I, is an eight-seat American pressurized turboprop twin-engined light aircraft. Now out of production, it was built by Cessna Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas, between 1980 and 1986.
How to recognise it: 2 turboprops · low wing · retractable tricycle gear · 13.4 m wingspan
base stats
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 48 years ago, in 1978.
- Top speed is 3.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 13.4 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 3,048 km: 17× Amsterdam to Brussels.
- Can fly 1.2× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
turboprop: A jet-style turbine turning a propeller: efficient on short hops.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1978-09-12
- introduced
- 1980
- number built
- 236
- role
- utility monoplane
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Cessna
- engines
- 2× Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-112
- passengers
- 7
- length
- 10.9 m
- wingspan
- 13.4 m
- height
- 3.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 3,720 kg
- top speed
- 489 km/h
- cruise speed
- 389 km/h
- range
- 3,048 km
- ceiling
- 10,577 m
- wings
- low wing
- landing gear
- retractable tricycle gear
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1057259, Wikipedia: Cessna 425 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.