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The Couzinet 40 was a mailplane built in France in the early 1930s.

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Role	Long-range commercial monoplane Type of aircraft
Manufacturer	Société des Avions René Couzinet
First flight	4 June 1932
Primary user	Aéropostale
Produced	1

Design

The Couzinet 40 was a five-seat low-wing monoplane of all-wood construction.[1]

Specifications

Data from [1]

General characteristics

• Crew: 5
• Length: 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in)
• Wingspan: 28 m (91 ft 10 in)
• Height: 4.36 m (14 ft 4 in)
• Wing area: 92.45 m² (995.1 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 4,140 kg (9,127 lb)
• Gross weight: 6,456 kg (14,233 lb)
• Powerplant: 3 × Gnome & Rhône 7Kd 7-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines, 260 kW (350 hp) each

Performance

• Maximum speed: 230 km/h (140 mph, 120 kn)

References

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