🛩️ light / GA ✓ still flying
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Reims F406 Caravan II, France - Army AN0632367: Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation· GFDL 1.2
- 2. Reims F406 Caravan II, France - Army AN0323265: Alan D R Brown· GFDL
what is it?
The Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II is a turboprop twin engine utility aircraft manufactured and designed by Reims Aviation in cooperation with Cessna.
How to recognise it: 2 engines · 15.1 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 43 years ago, in 1983.
- Top speed is 3.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 15.1 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 2,135 km: 12× Amsterdam to Brussels.
- Can fly 1.0× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1983-09-22
- introduced
- 1985
- status
- still flying
- number built
- 99
- role
- twin-engined utility
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- Cessna, Reims Aviation
- engines
- 2× Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-112 turboprop
- passengers
- 12
- length
- 11.9 m
- wingspan
- 15.1 m
- height
- 4 m
- max take-off weight
- 4,246 kg
- top speed
- 424 km/h
- cruise speed
- 388 km/h
- range
- 2,135 km
- ceiling
- 9,145 m
- ICAO code
- F406
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1668182, Wikipedia: Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II (CC BY-SA 4.0), ICAO code from list of aircraft type designators.Updated 2026-10-24.