Cessna 303

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name= Model T303 Crusader
type= six-seat cabin monoplane
manufacturer=Cessna Aircraft Company


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The Cessna T303 Crusader is an American six-place light twin aircraft built by Cessna Aircraft Company.

Design and development

The original Cessna 303 Clipper was first flown on February 14, 1978, it was a low-wing four-seat Lycoming powered twin-engined aircraft that would have competed with the Piper Seminole, Gulfstream American GA-7 Cougar, and Beech Duchess. After market demand for 4-place light twins declined and only one 303 Clipper was built before Cessna redesigned the aircraft as a six-place twin. The new model, designated the T303 Crusader first flew on October 17, 1979, with the first deliveries in October of 1981. The T303 is an all-metal low-wing six-seat twin-engined aircraft with a tricycle undercarriage. At the time it was the first all-new production twin built by Cessna in over a decade.

pecifications (T303)

General characteristics

* Crew: 1 pilot
* Capacity: 5 passengers
* Length: 30 ft 6 in (9.27 m)
* Wingspan: 39 ft 0.5 in (11.90 m)
* Height: 13 ft 4 in (4.06 m)
* Wing area: 196.2 ft² (17.6 m²)
* Empty: 3,364 lb (1,526 kg)
* Loaded: lb ( kg)
* Maximum takeoff: 5,150 lb (2,336 kg)
* Powerplant: 2x Continental Motors TSIO-520AE, 250hp (185 kW) each

Performance

* Maximum Speed: 250 mph (400 km/h)
* Range: 1,175 miles (1,890 km)
* Service ceiling: 25,000 ft (7,620 m)
* Rate of climb: 1,480 ft/min (451 m/min)
* Wing loading: lb/ft² ( kg/m²)
* Power/Mass: hp/lb ( kW/kg)

ee also

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* Cessna 310
* Piper PA-34 Seneca
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