Short Sunderland Aircraft

Sunderland V, Duxford

Production Details

Design Company:

Short Brothers (Rochester & Bedford) Ltd

First Flight:

16 October 1937

Sunderland Prototype:

1 - Short Brothers, Rochester

Sunderland I:

74 - Short Brothers, Rochester

Sunderland II:

23 - Short Brothers, Rochester 15 - Short & Harland, Belfast 20 - Blackburn Aircraft, Dumbarton

Sunderland III:

216 - Short Brothers, Rochester 35 - Short Brothers, Windermere 69 - Short & Harland, Belfast 160 - Blackburn Aircraft, Dumbarton

Sunderland IV:

2 - Short Brothers, Rochester

Sunderland V:

17 - Short Brothers, Rochester 48 - Short & Harland, Belfast 60 - Blackburn Aircraft, Dumbarton

Seaford:

8 - Shorts, Rochester

Sandringham:

29 - converted from Sunderland

Type Specification

Applies to:

Short S-25 Sunderland III

Type:

Four engined reconnaissance flying boat

Wing:

High wing cantilever monoplane. All metal structure

Hull:

All metal structure

Tail Unit:

Cantilever monoplane type. Fin and tailplane metal covered. The movable surfaces are fabric covered aft of the leading edge

Landing Gear:

None

Power Plant:

Four Bristol Pegasus XVIII nine cylinder radial air cooled engines, each rated at 1,065 hp. De Havilland three bladed metal airscrews

Accommodation:

The hull is divided into two decks. On the upper deck is the control cabin accomodating two pilots, a radio operator, a navigator and an engineer. In the extreme nose is the bomb aimers position and nose gun turret

Armament:

Eight 0.303 in machine guns in three Fraser-Nash turrets, one in the nose, one amidships and one in the extreme tail, the last armed with four guns. Bombs, depth-charges carried on railed rackswhich may be wound out from interior of hull

Span:

112 ft 9.5 in

Length:

85 ft 4 in

Height:

32 ft 10.5 in

Wing Area:

1,487 sq ft

Empty:

34,500 lb

Loaded:

58,000 lb

Max Speed:

210 mph at 6,500 ft

Rate of Climb:

720 ft/min at sea level

Service Ceiling:

16,000 ft

Range:

2,900 miles

Preserved in British Museums

Sunderland V:

ML796 - Imperial War Museum, Duxford Aerodrome - Display ML824 - Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon - Display

Sandringham 4:

VH-BRC - Solent Sky, Southampton - Display

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