Travel Air 6000

what is it?

The Travel Air 6000 (later known as the Curtiss-Wright 6B when Travel Air was purchased by Curtiss-Wright) is a six-seat utility aircraft manufactured in the United States in the late 1920s.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.8 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 209 km/htop speed
• seats 5passengers
• size 1,919 kgmax take-off weight
• built 150made 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 98 years ago, in 1928.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 14.8 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

1928-04-15

number built

150

role

civil utility aircraft

engines

1× Wright J-6-9 Whirlwind

crew

1

passengers

5

length

9.5 m

wingspan

14.8 m

height

2.7 m

max take-off weight

1,919 kg

top speed

209 km/h

cruise speed

177 km/h

range

—

ceiling

4,877 m

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