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To date, the YS-11 is the only successful commercial aircraft made by a Japanese firm. 182 were produced in total. Although most of the aircraft was designed and manufactured in Japan, the engines were built by Rolls-Royce.

The twin-engined YS-11 delivered similar operational performance to the four-engined Vickers Viscount, and had 50% more capacity than the similarly-configured Fokker F.27.

1 Operators

• Aerolineas Argentinas
• Air Nippon
• All Nippon Airways
• Austral Airlines
• China Airlines
• Cruzeiro
• Greek Air Force
• Japan Air System
• Japan Domestic Airlines
• Japan Self-Defense Force (Air and Maritime)
• Olympic Airways
• Piedmont AirlinesPiedmont Airlines is a regional airline operating under the name US Airways Express for US Airways. Headquartered in Salisbury, Maryland, it conducts flight operations along the East Coast of the United States, with concentrated operations at the Charlott
• Toa Domestic Airlines
• VASPViacao Aerea Sao Paulo VASP is a Brazilian airline based in Sao Paulo. Generated in Sao Paulo the company intented to connect Brazil’s large cities: Vasp (Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo), founded on November 4, 1933. Vasp was the first to serve the interior of th
• Asian Spirits

2 Specifications

• Engines: Two Rolls-Royce DartThe Rolls Royce Dart was a long-lived turboprop engine. First produced in the early 1950s, it was still in production around 1970. Largely associated with the very successful Vickers Viscount medium range airliner it powered a number of other European des turbopropA Turboprop or turboshaft engine is a type of gas turbine. It differs from a jet engine in that the design is optimized to produce rotating shaft power, instead of thrust from the exhaust gas. A turboprop builds onto a basic turbojet jet engine by only uss, each rated 3,000 horsepower (2,200 kW)
• Wingspan: 105 ft (32 m)
• Fuselage: 86 ft (26 m)
• Dry weight: 31,000 lb (15,500 kg)
• Maximum takeoff weight: 54,000 lb (24,500 kg)
• Airspeed: 250 knots (470 km/h)
• Operating range: 680 miles (1,100 km)
• Passengers: 64

3 External links

• YS-11 photographs by Tony Hara