Couzinet 40

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Role	Long-range commercial monoplane
Manufacturer
First flight	4 June 1932
Primary user	Aéropostale
Produced	1

The Couzinet 40 was a mailplane built in France in the early 1930s.

Design[]

The Couzinet 40 was a five-seat low-wing monoplane of all-wood construction.^[1]

Data from ^[1]

General characteristics

Crew: 5
Length: 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in)
Wingspan: 28 m (91 ft 10 in)
Height: 4.36 m (14 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 92.45 m² (995.1 sq ft)
Empty weight: 4,140 kg (9,127 lb)
Gross weight: 6,456 kg (14,233 lb)
Powerplant: 3 × Gnome & Rhône 7Kd 7-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines, 260 kW (350 hp) each

Performance

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Parmentier, Bruno. "Couzinet 40". Aviafrance (in French). Paris. Retrieved 7 March 2019.