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McDonnell Douglas MD-83SF payload and cargo capacity
MD-83SF · MD83
Aircraft information
This technical reference for McDonnell Douglas MD-83SF includes available capacity, performance, dimensions, and loading data.
Key figures
- Max payload
- 18,540 kg
- Cargo volume
- 153.7 m³
- Range at max payload
- 2,800 km
Charter
Specifications
Cargo & performance
- Max payload
- 18,540 kg
- Cargo volume
- 153.7 m³
- Containerized cargo volume
- 125 m³
- Range at max payload
- 2,800 km
- Ferry range
- 5,600 km
- Cruise speed
- 811 km/h
Dimensions
- Overall length
- 45.05 m
- Wingspan
- 32.85 m
- Main deck length
- 22.5 m
- Main deck width
- 3.3 m
- Main deck height
- 2.1 m
Cargo doors & loading notes
Main deck cargo door (LH): 216 × 345 cm
Weights
- Maximum takeoff weight (MTOW)
- 72,575 kg
- Maximum zero fuel weight (MZFW)
- 55,340 kg
- Maximum landing weight (MLW)
- 63,275 kg
- Operating empty weight (OEW)
- 36,800 kg
Aircraft
- Manufacturer
- McDonnell Douglas
- Aircraft family
- MD80
- ICAO type code
- MD83
- Aircraft category
- Narrow-body freighter
- Propulsion
- Jet
- Engines
- 2 × Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219
- Recorded operational status
- Active
Airport planning
ICAO type classification
Current Doc 8643 record for MD83.
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
- MD83
- Wake turbulence category
- M
- Wingtip clearance group
- D
- Aircraft configuration
- Land Plane · 2 × Jet
Source: ICAO · Doc 8643 — Aircraft Type Designators · Updated Sep 3, 2026
FAA airport planning characteristics
Mapped by ICAO type designator MD83. FAA source record: Boeing (Douglas) MD 83.
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
- III
- Taxiway design group
- 4
- Reference approach speed
- 144 kt
- Tail height
- 9.2 m
- Wheelbase
- 22.07 m
- Main gear width
- 6.22 m
- Reference MTOW
- 72,575 kg
Source: FAA · Aircraft Characteristics Database (October 2024) · Download source dataset