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De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter payload and cargo capacity
DHC-3 · DHC3
Aircraft information
This technical reference for De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter includes available capacity, performance, dimensions, and loading data.
Key figures
- Max payload
- 1,015 kg
- Cargo volume
- 8 m³
- Range at max payload
- 880 km
Charter
Specifications
Cargo & performance
- Max payload
- 1,015 kg
- Cargo volume
- 8 m³
- Range at max payload
- 880 km
- Ferry range
- 1,600 km
- Cruise speed
- 222 km/h
Dimensions
- Overall length
- 12.8 m
- Wingspan
- 17.69 m
- Main deck length
- 6.4 m
- Main deck width
- 1.9 m
- Main deck height
- 1.6 m
Cargo doors & loading notes
Side cargo door 130 × 130 cm
Weights
- Maximum takeoff weight (MTOW)
- 3,630 kg
- Maximum zero fuel weight (MZFW)
- 3,195 kg
- Maximum landing weight (MLW)
- 3,629 kg
- Operating empty weight (OEW)
- 2,175 kg
Aircraft
- Manufacturer
- De Havilland Canada
- Aircraft family
- DHC3
- ICAO type code
- DHC3
- Aircraft category
- Narrow-body freighter
- Propulsion
- Piston
- Engines
- 1 × Pratt & Whitney R-1340
- Recorded operational status
- Current / unconfirmed
Airport planning
ICAO type classification
Current Doc 8643 record for DHC3.
Official ICAO type-level classification mapped by the current Doc 8643 designator. Multiple aircraft variants may share one designator; this is not variant-specific operational approval.
- ICAO type designator
- DHC3
- Wake turbulence category
- L
- Wingtip clearance group
- G
- Aircraft configuration
- Land Plane · 1 × Piston
Source: ICAO · Doc 8643 — Aircraft Type Designators · Updated Sep 3, 2026