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Corporate transport and airliner
Cessna 402 is a corporate transport and airliner originating in United States. It was built by Cessna. Reported operators include Cape Air.
Technical data
True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Corporate transport and airliner
United States
Cessna
In service
Cape Air
2,000+
1966–1985
1967
August 26, 1965
Cessna 411
Cessna 404 Titan Cessna 414
Two pilots
Six passengers
36 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (11.09 m)
44 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (13.45 m)
11 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (3.49 m)
225.8 sq ft (20.98 m 2 )
NACA 23018 (root) NACA 23015 (tip)
4,077 lb (1,849 kg)
6,850 lb (3,107 kg)
206 US gal (172 imp gal; 780 L) usable fuel
2 × Continental TSIO-520-VB air-cooled turbocharged flat-six engines, 325 hp (242 kW) each
3-bladed McCauley 0850334-34 constant speed propeller
231 kn (266 mph, 428 km/h) at 16,000 ft (4,900 m)
142 kn (163 mph, 263 km/h) at 10,000 ft (3,000 m) (econ cruise)
68 kn (78 mph, 126 km/h) (flaps down, power off) (CAS)
231 kn (266 mph, 428 km/h) ( CAS )
1,273 nmi (1,465 mi, 2,358 km) at 10,000 ft (3,000 m), econ cruise
26,900 ft (8,200 m)
1,450 ft/min (7.4 m/s)
2,195 ft (669 m)
2,485 ft (757 m)
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Cessna 402 equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Air Force exact named equipment holdings: Cessna 402. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: AIRCRAFT / Light. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Air Force holdings of the exact named Cessna 402 component, counted as equipment units: active, operational reserve and training equipment, excluding equipment in store. Service-scoped IISS observation, not a national total or combat-readiness figure. No parent, sibling, mounted-weapon or heading aggregate quantity inherited.
Air Wing exact named equipment holdings: Cessna 402. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: AIRCRAFT / Light. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Air Force exact named equipment holdings: Cessna 402B. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: AIRCRAFT / Light. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Reported count for Cessna 402. Service scope: Tanzania Air Force Command; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): in service: 1. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2025), not the article revision. 2025 cited publication year. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
National Guard (Fuerzas Armadas de Cooperacion) exact named equipment holdings: Cessna 402C. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: AIRCRAFT / Light. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.