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Douglas DC-8-73CF payload and cargo capacity
DC-8-73CF · DC87
Aircraft information
This technical reference for Douglas DC-8-73CF includes available capacity, performance, dimensions, and loading data.
Key figures
- Max payload
- 50,710 kg
- Cargo volume
- 363.3 m³
- Range at max payload
- 4,700 km
Charter
Specifications
Cargo & performance
- Max payload
- 50,710 kg
- Cargo volume
- 363.3 m³
- Containerized cargo volume
- 234 m³
- Range at max payload
- 4,700 km
- Ferry range
- 10,400 km
- Cruise speed
- 864 km/h
Dimensions
- Overall length
- 57.12 m
- Wingspan
- 45.23 m
- Main deck length
- 44.19 m
- Main deck width
- 3.22 m
- Main deck height
- 2.1 m
Cargo doors & loading notes
Main deck cargo door (LH): 355 × 215 cm | Lower deck forward cargo door 1: 137 × 160 cm | Lower deck forward cargo door 2: 91 × 111 cm | Lower deck aft cargo door 1: 137 × 160 cm | Lower deck aft cargo door 2: 91 × 111 cm
Weights
- Maximum takeoff weight (MTOW)
- 161,030 kg
- Maximum zero fuel weight (MZFW)
- 118,390 kg
- Maximum landing weight (MLW)
- 124,740 kg
- Operating empty weight (OEW)
- 67,675 kg
Aircraft
- Manufacturer
- Douglas
- Aircraft family
- DC8
- ICAO type code
- DC87
- Aircraft category
- Freighter
- Propulsion
- Jet
- Engines
- 4 × CFM56-2C5
- Recorded operational status
- Active
Airport planning
ICAO type classification
Current Doc 8643 record for DC87.
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
- DC87
- Wake turbulence category
- H
- Wingtip clearance group
- C
- Aircraft configuration
- Land Plane · 4 × Jet
Source: ICAO · Doc 8643 — Aircraft Type Designators · Updated Sep 3, 2026
FAA airport planning characteristics
Mapped by ICAO type designator DC87. FAA source record: Douglas DC-8-70.
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
- D
- Airplane design group
- IV
- Taxiway design group
- 4
- Reference approach speed
- 143 kt
- Tail height
- 13.2 m
- Wheelbase
- 18.53 m
- Main gear width
- 7.59 m
- Reference MTOW
- 151,999 kg
Source: FAA · Aircraft Characteristics Database (October 2024) · Download source dataset