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Martin 2-0-2
🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1946· airliner
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
what is it?
The Martin 2-0-2 was a low-wing, all-metal, twin piston-engined American airliner designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. Introduced in 1947, the 40 passenger unpressurized aircraft was powered by Pratt & Whitney R-2800 CA-18 Double Wasp 18-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, and cruised at 255 knots.
How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · retractable tricycle gear · 28.4 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 80 years ago, in 1946.
- Top speed is 3.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 28.4 m: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Can fly 1.1× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1946-11-22
- introduced
- 1947
- retired
- 1975
- status
- retired
- number built
- 47
- role
- airliner
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Glenn L. Martin Company
- engines
- 2× Pratt & Whitney R-2800 CA-18 Double Wasp
- crew
- 2
- passengers
- 40
- length
- 21.7 m
- wingspan
- 28.4 m
- height
- 8.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 18.1 t
- top speed
- 500 km/h
- cruise speed
- 471 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 10,058 m
- 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 Q665071, Wikipedia: Martin 2-0-2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.