Bombardier Dash 8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Dash_8

The DHC-8 Dash 8 is a series of turboprop-powered regional airliners, introduced
by de Havilland Canada (DHC) in 1984. DHC was later bought by Boeing in 1988,
then by Bombardier in 1992; the program is to be resold to Viking Air parent
Longview Aviation Capital by late 2019. Powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada
PW100s, it was developed from the Dash 7 with improved cruise performance,
lowered operational costs but without STOL performance. Three sizes were
offered: initially the 37–40 seat -100 until 2005 and the more powerful -200
from 1995, the stretched 50–56 seats -300 from 1989, both until 2009, and the
68–90 seats -400 from 1999, still in production. The Q Series are post-1997
variants with quieter cabins.

In the 1970s, de Havilland Canada had invested heavily in its Dash 7 project,
concentrating on STOL and short-field performance, the company's traditional
area of expertise. Using four medium-power engines with large, four-bladed
propellers resulted in comparatively lower noise levels, which combined with its
excellent STOL characteristics, made the Dash 7 suitable for operating from
small in-city airports, a market DHC felt would be compelling. However, only a
handful of air carriers employed the Dash 7, as most regional airlines were more
interested in operational costs than short-field performance.

In 1980, de Havilland responded by dropping the short-field performance
requirement and adapting the basic Dash 7 layout to use only two, more powerful
engines. Its favoured engine supplier, Pratt & Whitney Canada, developed the new
PW100 series engines for the role, more than doubling the power from its PT6.
Originally designated the PT7A-2R engine, it later became the PW120. When the
Dash 8 rolled out on April 19, 1983, more than 3,800 hours of testing had been
accumulated over two years on five PW100 series test engines. The Dash 8 first
flight was on June 20, 1983.

Certification of the PW120 followed on December 16, 1983.


Role
Turboprop airliner

Manufacturer
de Havilland Canada
Bombardier Aerospace

First flight
June 20, 1983

Introduction
1984 with NorOntair

Status
In production

Primary users
SpiceJet
Flybe
Widerøe
QantasLink

Produced
1983–present

Number built
1,249 (as of June 30, 2018)

Unit cost

Q200: US$12 million (2000)
Q300: US$14.3 million (2000)
Q400: US$32.2 million (2017)

Developed from
de Havilland Canada Dash 7

Operators

Main article: List of Bombardier Dash 8 operators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...sh_8_operators

By 2017, the Q400 aircraft had logged 7 million flight hours with 60 operators
and transported over 400 million passengers with a dispatch reliability over
99.5%.

By July 2018, 844 Dash 8s were in airline service: 143 Series 100 with 35
operators, 42 Series 200 with 16 operators, 151 Series 300 with 32 operators and
508 Q400s. By then, 56 orders were in backlog

Specifications

Model Q400


Cockpit crew
2

Cabin crew
2-3

Passengers, typical
82@30"

Max capacity
90@28"

Length
107 ft 9 in / 32.8 m

Height
27 ft 5 in / 8.4 m

Wingspan
93 ft 3 in / 28.4 m

Wing area
689 ft² / 64 m²

Aspect ratio
12.6

Width
Fuselage 8 ft 10 in / 2.69 m, cabin 8 ft 3 in / 2.52 m

Cabin length
61 ft 8 in / 18.80 m

Max takeoff
67,200 lb / 30,481 kg

Operating empty
39284 lb / 17819 kg

Max payload
18,716 lb / 8,489 kg

Max fuel
1,724 U.S. gal / 6,526 L

Engines
2 × PW150

Unit power
5,071 shp / 3,781 kW

High speed cruise
300–360 kn / 556–667 km/h

Ceiling
27,000 ft / 8229 m

Range
1,100 nmi / 2,040 km

Takeoff (MTOW, SL, ISA)
4,675 ft / 1,425 m

Landing (MLW, SL)
4,230 ft / 1,289 meters



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