Fairchild Dornier 328JET

what is it?

The Fairchild-Dornier 328JET is a commuter airliner, based upon the turboprop-powered Dornier 328, developed by the German aircraft manufacturer Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH. It would be the last Dornier-designed aircraft to reach production before the company's collapse during the early 2000s. The 328JET was designed by Dornier in response to negative feedback from some customers on the marketability of turboprops against the more appealing turbofan engine. It was a relatively straightforward re-engining of the existing 328, being originally designated as the 328-300 prior to being rebranded as the 328JET. During 1996, early on in the programme, the financially distressed Dornier company was acquired by the American aerospace firm Fairchild Aircraft; the resulting corporation, named Fairchild Dornier, continued development of the 328JET. On 20 January 1998, the first 328JET prototype conducte

🔎How to recognise it: 2 engines · 21 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 750 km/htop speed
• range 2,740 kmwithout refuelling
• seats 33passengers
• size 15.7 tmax take-off weight
• built 110made in total

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 28 years ago, in 1998.
• 🏎️Top speed is 5.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 21 m: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 🌍Range of 2,740 km: 15× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.2× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

spec sheet

first flight

1998-01-20

status

still flying

number built

110

role

airliner

origin

🇩🇪 Germany

makers

Dornier, Fairchild

engines

2× Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306B

passengers

33

length

21.1 m

wingspan

21 m

height

7.2 m

max take-off weight

15.7 t

top speed

750 km/h

range

2,740 km

ceiling

10,668 m

ICAO code

J328

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

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