16 Facts About Commercial aircraft

Lightest of short-haul regional feeder airliner type Commercial aircraft that carry a small number of passengers are called commuter Commercial aircraft, commuterliners, feederliners, and air taxis, depending on their size, engines, how they are marketed, region of the world, and seating configurations.

One such aircraft was the French Farman F 60 Goliath, which had originally been designed as a long-range heavy bomber; a number were converted for commercial use into passenger airliners starting in 1919, being able to accommodate a maximum of 14 seated passengers.

Nine Commercial aircraft were built, all but one being delivered to the nascent airline, Aircraft Transport and Travel, which used the first Commercial aircraft for pleasure flying, and on 25 August 1919, it inaugurated the first scheduled international airline service from London to Paris.

One Commercial aircraft was sold to the River Plate Aviation Company in Argentina, to operate a cross-river service between Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

World's first all-metal transport aircraft was the Junkers F 13, which made its first flight in 1919.

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Multi-engined Commercial aircraft were now capable of transporting dozens of passengers in comfort.

Later Commercial aircraft were amongst the first airliners to be fitted with flaps for improved landing performance, along with downwards-facing recognition light and metal propellers, which were often retrofitted to older Commercial aircraft.

For British use, multi-engine Commercial aircraft types were allegedly split between the US for military transport Commercial aircraft and the UK for heavy bombers.

British Commercial aircraft manufacturers were tied up to fulfill military requirements, and had no free capacity to address other matters though the war.

The Type III requirement led to the conventional Avro Tudor and the more ambitious Bristol Britannia, although both Commercial aircraft suffered protracted developments, with the latter entering service with BOAC in February 1957, over seven years following its order.

Accommodating up to 44 seats, 40 Commercial aircraft were completed for Air France between October 1945 and April 1948.

Light Commercial aircraft can be used as small commuter airliners, or as air taxis.

Except for a few experimental or military designs, all Commercial aircraft built to date have had all of their weight lifted off the ground by airflow across the wings.

Naturally the airline tries to maximize the number of seats available in every Commercial aircraft to carry the largest possible number of passengers.

On some newer Commercial aircraft, a "Turn off electronic devices" sign is used instead of the "No Smoking" sign, as smoking isn't permitted on board the Commercial aircraft anyway.

Baggage holds on modern airliners are equipped with fire detection equipment and larger Commercial aircraft have automated or remotely activated fire-fighting devices installed.