Rockwell 685

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Rockwell 685
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Rockwell Commander 685
Role Business aircraft
National origin United States
Manufacturer Aero Commander/Rockwell International
First flight1971
Developed from Rockwell Commander 690

The Rockwell Commander 685 or Aero Commander 685 [1] is a light-twin piston-engined aircraft with a pressurized cabin originally built by the Aero Commander company, a division of Rockwell International from 1965.

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The predecessor model was the Aero Commander 690 and the next generation are Aero Commander JetProp series. The Aero Commander 685 had the ICAO aircraft code AC6L [2] The introduction was in 1971 and the retired in 1976; in this time are built 66 aircraft.[ citation needed ]

Design and development

The Commander 685 was a piston-engined variant of the turboprop-powered Rockwell Commander 690, with two wing-mounted 435 hp Continental GTSIO-520K piston engines in tractor configuration with three-bladed Hartzell feathering propellers. It is a high-wing cantilever monoplane with an enclosed nine-seat cabin and a retractable nose-wheel landing gear. The Model 685 was type certified by the Federal Aviation Administration on 17 September 1971.

Specifications

Data from Jane's All the Worlds Aircraft 1976–77 [3]

General characteristics

Performance

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References

  1. Collins, Richard L. (January 1973). "On Top: Aero Commander 685". Flying . Vol. 92, no. 1. pp. 100–101. ISSN   0015-4806.
  2. Anderson, Lionel K. (2010). ICAO Aircraft Codes (ACARS - A Users Guide for the Aviation Enthusiast ed.). Las Antalayas Publishing. p. 115. ISBN   978-1-4457-8847-0.
  3. Taylor 1976, pp. 377–378

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