page_title: Travel Air 5000
section_title: Design and development
hierarchical_section_title: Travel Air 5000 / Design and development
caption_attribution_description: English: Travel Air 5000 with National Air Transport in flight
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: Cessna broke away from traditional biplane development with a monoplane in 1926. The first prototype was a 5-passenger aircraft with an  110 hp (82 kW) Anzani engine. The aircraft was modified by Cessna, Lloyd Stearman, and Walter Beech that fall. A second aircraft was built that December, and featured a Wright J-4 Whirlwind as the Travel Air 5000. National Air Transport awarded Travel Air a contract to produce the aircraft with the larger Wright J-5C engine and seating for four passengers. Eight aircraft were built for air mail contract and passenger service.
  The Travel Air 5000 was a high-wing monoplane with conventional landing gear. The fuselage was constructed of welded steel tubing. The cockpit was fully enclosed in a canopy above the forward fuselage, but at least one model had the canopy omitted. The Dole racers were modified with 425 gallon fuselage fuel tanks and earth inductor compasses.
caption: Travel Air 5000 with National Air Transport in flight
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