page_title: Latécoère 490
section_title: Specifications (490, unmodified)
hierarchical_section_title: Latécoère 490 / Specifications (490, unmodified)
caption_attribution_description: English: Late 491 3-view drawing from L'Aerophile March 1933
context_page_description: The Latécoère 490 was a two-seat, single-engined parasol winged aircraft, designed to a French photographic reconnaissance specification of 1928. Only two prototypes were built.
context_section_description: Data from Cuny 1992, pp. 247
  General characteristics
  Crew: 2
  Length: 9.70 m (31 ft 10 in)
  Wingspan: 14.60 m (47 ft 11 in)
  Height: 2.90 m (9 ft 6 in)
  Empty weight: 1,798 kg (3,964 lb)
  Gross weight: 2,571 kg (5,668 lb)
  Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 12 Nb V-12 watercooled piston, 480 kW (650 hp)
  Propellers: 2-bladed Ratier 9400, 3.10 m (10 ft 2 in) diameter
  Performance
  Maximum speed: 275 km/h (171 mph, 148 kn) at sea level
  Range: 1,860 km (1,160 mi, 1,000 nmi)
  Service ceiling: 7,800 m (25,600 ft)
  Rate of climb: 4.61 m/s (907 ft/min) to 5,000 m (16,400 ft)
  Armament
  2× 7.7 mm (0.303 in) fixed Vickers machine guns
  2× 7.7 mm (0.303 in) TO 7 "tourelle" mounted Lewis machine guns in observer's cockpit
  1× 7.7 mm (0.303 in) moveable, rearward firing ventral Lewis gun
caption: Late 491 3-view drawing from L'Aerophile March 1933
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