Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador

Airspeed

Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador aircraft
AirspeedAirspeed AS.57 Ambassador
Photo: Steve Knight from Halstead, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0 · Modified

About

A twin-piston airliner with a triple fin and a high wing, flown by BEA as the Elizabethan. It is the aeroplane the Munich air disaster happened to. No type certificate for it is reachable — the FAA's regulatory system is closed to us and EASA never held the type — so this entry carries its history but none of the certified weights the rest of the library is built on.

Engine Specifications

Engine Count

2×

Production & History

Total Produced

23

Production Status

Retired

Manufacturing Period

1947–1953

First Flight

July 10, 1947