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what is it?
The Cessna T303 Crusader is an American six-place light twin-engined aircraft built by Cessna Aircraft Company. Production ceased in 1986.
How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · 11.9 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 3.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.9 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
- 1978-02-14
- introduced
- 1981
- number built
- 297
- role
- six-seat twin engine cabin monoplane
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Cessna
- engines
- 2× Continental TSIO-520-AE/LTSIO-520-AE
- length
- 9.3 m
- wingspan
- 11.9 m
- height
- 4.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,336 kg
- top speed
- 401 km/h
- cruise speed
- 364 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 7,620 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q115976, Wikipedia: Cessna T303 Crusader (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.