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Douglas DC-6 payload and cargo capacity
DC-6 · DC6
Aircraft information
This technical reference for Douglas DC-6 includes available capacity, performance, dimensions, and loading data.
Key figures
- Max payload
- 12,800 kg
- Cargo volume
- 90 m³
- Range at max payload
- 2,600 km
Charter
Specifications
Cargo & performance
- Max payload
- 12,800 kg
- Cargo volume
- 90 m³
- Range at max payload
- 2,600 km
- Ferry range
- 6,500 km
- Cruise speed
- 507 km/h
Dimensions
- Overall length
- 30.66 m
- Wingspan
- 35.81 m
- Main deck length
- 16.1 m
- Main deck width
- 3 m
- Main deck height
- 2.7 m
Cargo doors & loading notes
Main deck side cargo door 230 × 190 cm
Weights
- Maximum takeoff weight (MTOW)
- 48,534 kg
- Maximum zero fuel weight (MZFW)
- 40,800 kg
- Maximum landing weight (MLW)
- 44,000 kg
- Operating empty weight (OEW)
- 28,000 kg
Aircraft
- Manufacturer
- Douglas
- Aircraft family
- DC6
- ICAO type code
- DC6
- Aircraft category
- Narrow-body freighter
- Propulsion
- Piston
- Engines
- 4 × Pratt & Whitney R-2800
- Recorded operational status
- Active
Airport planning
ICAO type classification
Current Doc 8643 record for DC6.
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
- DC6
- Wake turbulence category
- M
- Wingtip clearance group
- D
- Aircraft configuration
- Land Plane · 4 × Piston
Source: ICAO · Doc 8643 — Aircraft Type Designators · Updated Sep 3, 2026
FAA airport planning characteristics
Mapped by ICAO type designator DC6. FAA source record: Douglas DC 6.
FAA aircraft-type data mapped by ICAO designator. It is intended for airport planning and design; it is not variant-specific operational approval or a complete compatibility assessment.
- FAA approach category
- B
- Airplane design group
- III
- Taxiway design group
- 3
- Reference approach speed
- 108 kt
- Tail height
- 8.66 m
- Wheelbase
- 9.39 m
- Main gear width
- 8.69 m
- Reference MTOW
- 48,534 kg
Source: FAA · Aircraft Characteristics Database (October 2024) · Download source dataset