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Travel Air 5000
Travel Air 5000 Aircraft on display
Role Light aircraft The Travel Air 5000 "Wooalroc" is on display at the
National origin United States of America Woolaroc Museum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.[5]
Manufacturer Travel Air Manufacturing Company
Designer Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna
Specifications (Travel Air 5000)
Data from Travel Air Restorers Association
Number built 10
General characteristics
Variants Travel Air 6000 • 30 ft 5 in (9.27 m)
• 51 ft 7 in (15.72 m)
The Travel Air 5000 was a early monoplane design by • 8 ft 5 in (2.57 m)
Clyde Cessna • 312 sq ft (29.0 m2)
• M6
Design and development •
•
2,160 lb (980 kg)
3,600 lb (1,633 kg)
Cessna broke away from traditional biplane development • 75 gal
with a monoplane of his own design in 1926. His first pro-
Performance
totype was a 5 passenger aircraft with an 110 hp (82 kW)
• 107 kn; 198 km/h (123 mph)
Anzani engine, the second more advanced plane built
• 94 kn; 174 km/h (108 mph)
that December featured a Wright J-4 Whirlwind. It be-
• 48 kn; 89 km/h (55 mph)
came the model for the Travel Air 5000. National Air
• 13,600 ft (4,100 m)
Transport awarded Travel air with a contract to produce
• 750 ft/min (3.8 m/s)
the aircraft with an even larger Wright J-5C engine. Eight
aircraft were built for air mail contract and passenger
service.[1] References
The Travel Air 5000 was a high wing monoplane with [1] "Travel Air". http://www.travelair.org/html/
conventional landing gear. The cockpit was configured to history/history_frame_ta5000history.html.
be fully enclosed, but at least one model was built with Retrieved 23 August 2011.
the pilot exposed above the wing.[2] [2] "Travel Air 5000". http://1000aircraftphotos.com/
Contributions/4560.htm. Retrieved 23 August
Operational history 2011.
[3] "Travel Air 5000 "City of Oakland"".
National Air Transport, and Royal Airways used the mod-
http://www.dmairfield.org/airplanes/160/
el 5000 in revenue service.[citation needed]
index.html. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
A single Travel Air 5000, sn160 "The Spirit of Oak-
[4] Air and Space. September 2010.
land" was sold to Pacific Air Transport in April 1927 and
[5] Woolaroc Museum (2011). "Museum and Art".
resold to Ernest Smith for a 14 July flight from Oakland
https://woolaroc.org/pages/museum-and-art.
California to Molokai, Hawaii where it crashed on landing
Retrieved 14 August 2011.
becoming the second aircraft ever to complete a trans-
pacific flight.[3]
Two Travel Air model 5000 aircraft owned by Phillips External links
Petroleum flew in the Dole Air Derby in 1927 from Oak- • Image of a NAT Travel Air 5000
land, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. The "Oklahoma"
was forced to return to land, while the "Woolaroc" was
able to complete the flight and won.[4]
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• United States sport aircraft 1920–1929
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