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Model 40 (Passenger)
Model 40 (Mailplane)
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Model 40B mailplane
Model 40B with Passengers
Boeing Model 40B in Flight Above Mountain
Model 40B with NACA Cowling
Model 40B-4 Mailplane Radio Ship Model
Passengers and Pilot with the Boeing Model 40B Transport
Model 40Y Special Order Model 40
Model 40B at Boeing Hangar
Model 40B-4 at Plant I Hangar
Model 40B-4 Mailplane Manufacturing
Model 40 on Ground
William Boeing with a Model 40
Model 40A Soars over Nevada’s Ruby Mountains
Boeing Model 40 with Special Passenger
Pacific Air Transport Hangar in Sandpoint, ID
Boeing Model 40A Mail Plane in Flight Above Nevada's Ruby Mountains
Eddie Allen in the Cockpit of a Model 40B-4
Boeing Model 40C at Gorst's Field
Model 40C in Boeing Factory
Model 40A on Ground
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Boeing Model 40B flying over mountain
The four-passenger-Model 40B-4 was the major production model of the first Boeing mailplane. It had extra cabin windows and could carry four people as well as 500 pounds of mail. The first Model 40 was redesigned as the Model 40A in 1927 using an air-cooled engine. This engine was about 200 pounds lighter than the water-cooled engines used by competitors for the airmail contract, so the Model 40A won and became the first Boeing-built airplane to carry paying passengers as well as mail. The Model 40 series (A, B, and C) flew under the banner of Boeing Air Transport, a new company subsidiary. Models 40X and Y were custom-built for oil companies.
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BI232656
Boeing ID
2760b
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