Travel Air 5000

Travel Air 5000
Role Airliner and Racer
National origin United States of America
Manufacturer Travel Air Manufacturing Company
Designer Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna and Walter Beech
First flight March 1926
Primary user National Air Transport
Number built 13
Variants Travel Air 6000

The Travel Air 5000 was an early high-wing monoplane airliner and racing monoplane designed by Clyde Cessna and is chiefly remembered for being the winner of the disastrous Dole Air Race from California to Hawaii.

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