Cunliffe-Owen Concordia

The Cunliffe-Owen Concordia was 12-seat medium range transport aircraft with twin Alvis Leonides LE 4M engines. A separate luggage compartment could accommodate 45 lbs of luggage per passenger. Designed by W. Garrow-Fisher and built at Eastleigh, Hampshire in 1947. The prototype aircraft Y-0222 was first flown at Eastleigh on the 19th May 1947. A second aircraft G-AKBE was displayed at the 1947 SBAC Show at Radlett and made an extensive European sales tour.

Work was suspended on 18 November 1947 on a production batch of six aircraft. These included one aircraft for the Nawab of Bhopal and two for British European Airways Air Malta placed an order for one example in early 1947. It was concluded there was not a market for the aircraft. Cunliffe-Owen never recovered from this setback and went out of business in 1948.

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General characteristics:

Capacity: 10 passengers

Length: 44 ft 10 in (13.67 m)

Wingspan: 56 ft 7in (17.25 m)

Height: 16 ft 9 in (5.1 m)

Empty weight: 4,450 lb (2,023 kg)

Loaded weight: 12,500 lb (5,682 kg)

Engines: 2 × Alvis Leonides L.E.4M radial engine, 550 hp (410 kW) each

Performance:

Maximum speed: 216 mph (348 km/h) at 3,000 ft

Cruise speed: 194 mph