Douglas

Douglas AC-47 Spooky

Attack aircraft

  • First flight1965
  • Introduction1965
  • StatusIn service within the Colombian Aerospace Force
  • Number built53
Technical data

Specifications

01

Crew & dimensions

Crew
7: pilot, copilot, navigator, flight engineer, loadmaster and 2 gunners
Length
64 ft 5 in
Wingspan
95 ft
Height
16 ft 11 in
02

Performance

Maximum speed
230 mph
Range
2,175 mi
Service ceiling
24,450 ft
03

Powerplant

Powerplant
2 × Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp 14-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines (1,200 hp)
04

Armament

Armament
Guns: 3 × 7.62 mm General Electric GAU-2/M134 miniguns, 2,000 rpm or, 10 ×.30 in Browning AN/M2 machine guns, 32 × Mk 24 flares

Engines 1

R-1830 R-1830 Piston engines Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp Twin-row radial engine built in very large numbers during the Second World War. Pratt & Whitney · United States→