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Douglas DC-3 payload and cargo capacity
DC-3 · DC3
Aircraft information
This technical reference for Douglas DC-3 includes available capacity, performance, dimensions, and loading data.
Key figures
- Max payload
- 2,800 kg
- Cargo volume
- 20 m³
- Range at max payload
- 1,200 km
Charter
Specifications
Cargo & performance
- Max payload
- 2,800 kg
- Cargo volume
- 20 m³
- Range at max payload
- 1,200 km
- Ferry range
- 3,400 km
- Cruise speed
- 333 km/h
Dimensions
- Overall length
- 19.66 m
- Wingspan
- 29.11 m
- Main deck length
- 9.8 m
- Main deck width
- 1.9 m
- Main deck height
- 1.6 m
Cargo doors & loading notes
Main deck cargo door 198 × 166 cm
Weights
- Maximum takeoff weight (MTOW)
- 11,430 kg
- Maximum zero fuel weight (MZFW)
- 10,500 kg
- Maximum landing weight (MLW)
- 11,430 kg
- Operating empty weight (OEW)
- 7,700 kg
Aircraft
- Manufacturer
- Douglas
- Aircraft family
- DC3
- ICAO type code
- DC3
- Aircraft category
- Narrow-body freighter
- Propulsion
- Piston
- Engines
- 2 × Pratt & Whitney R-1830
- Recorded operational status
- Limited or rare operation
Airport planning
ICAO type classification
Current Doc 8643 record for DC3.
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
- DC3
- Wake turbulence category
- M
- Wingtip clearance group
- G
- Aircraft configuration
- Land Plane · 2 × Piston
Source: ICAO · Doc 8643 — Aircraft Type Designators · Updated Sep 3, 2026
FAA airport planning characteristics
Mapped by ICAO type designator DC3. FAA source record: Douglas DC 3.
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
- 97 kt
- Tail height
- 5.15 m
- Wheelbase
- 11.06 m
- Main gear width
- 6.13 m
- Reference MTOW
- 11,431 kg
Source: FAA · Aircraft Characteristics Database (October 2024) · Download source dataset