what is it?
The Cessna Model DC-6 was a 1920s American high-wing four-seat tourer built by the Cessna Aircraft Company.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.6 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 97 years ago, in 1929.
- Top speed is 2.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 14.6 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1929
- introduced
- 1929
- number built
- —
- role
- four-seat tourer
- makers
- Cessna
- engines
- 1× Wright J-6-9
- length
- 8.6 m
- wingspan
- 14.6 m
- height
- 2.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,442 kg
- top speed
- 257 km/h
- cruise speed
- 209 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,639 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2947063, Wikipedia: Cessna DC-6 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.