Boeing 314 Flying Boats Specifications

Boeing 314 Clipper Flying Boat

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This letter was carried on the Boeing B-314
NC 18602 California Clipper on January 1, 1941.

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Type	Ship	Name	serial no.	Enter Service	Ended Service	Notes
Boeing 314	NC18601	Honolulu Clipper	1988	1939	1945	Sunk US Navy
Boeing 314	NC18602	California Clipper	1989	1939	1946	Renamed Pacific Clipper Sold World Airways
Boeing 314		Pacific Clipper				Ex California Clipper Sold World Airways Completed the first round-the-world flight by a commercial aircraft after continuing west from New Zealand after the bombing of Pearl Harbor almost one month earlier, 06-Jan-1942
Boeing 314	NC18603	Yankee Clipper	1990	1939	1943	Inaugurated the first scheduled trans-Atlantic flight (mail only), 20-May-1939 (Port Washington, New York-Horta-Lisbon-Marseilles) Lost on landing at Lisbon, Portugal
Boeing 314	NC18604	Atlantic Clipper	1991	1939	1946
Boeing 314	NC18605	Dixie Clipper	1992	1939	1946	Inaugurated trans-Atlantic passenger service, 29-Jun-1939 (Port Washington, New York-Horta-Lisbon-Marseilles)
Boeing 314	NC18606	American Clipper	1993	1939	1946	Sold World Airways
Boeing 314A	NC18609	Pacific Clipper	2083	1941	1946
Boeing 314A	NC18611	Anzac Clipper	2085	1941	1946
Boeing 314A	NC18612	Capetown Clipper	2086	1941	1946	Sunk USCG

First flight:	June 7, 1938
Model number:	314A
Classification:	Commercial transport
Span:	152 feet
Length:	106 feet
Gross weight:	84,000 pounds
Top speed:	199 mph
Cruising speed:	184 mph
Range:	5,200 miles
Ceiling:	19,600 feet
Power:	Four 1,600-horsepower Wright Twin Cyclone engines
Accommodation:	10 crew, 74 passengers

Boeing Plant No. 1 - Seattle where the 314's were built

On July 21,1936 Pan American signed a contract for six aircraft, the first of which (designation Model 314) took to the air on June 7,1938. It outstripped all rivals in size, with twice the power of the Martin M-130. The 14-cylinder double-row Wright Cyclones were the first to use 100-octane fuel. The finest flying boat to go into regular commercial service, the Boeing 314 weighed 40 tons, and the first batch cost $550,000 per aircraft.

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Boeing 314 Clipper lifts off from Elliott Bay, ca. 1938
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