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what is it?
The Stinson SM-6000 Airliner is a 1930s three-engined (trimotor) ten-passenger airliner designed and built by the Stinson Aircraft Corporation. The SM-6000 was a high-wing braced monoplane with room for a pilot and a cabin for ten passengers. It was powered by three 215 hp (160 kW) Lycoming R-680 engines strut-mounted one each side above the main landing gear units and one in the nose.
How to recognise it: 3 engines · 18.3 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
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 18.3 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- —
- number built
- 53
- role
- three-engined airliner
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Stinson
- engines
- 3× Lycoming R-680
- length
- 12.8 m
- wingspan
- 18.3 m
- height
- 3.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 3,910 kg
- top speed
- 234 km/h
- cruise speed
- 200 km/h
- range
- 628 km
- ceiling
- 4,330 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q276904, Wikipedia: Stinson Airliner (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.