page_title: Commonwealth Skyranger
section_title: Specifications (Model 185 Skyranger)
hierarchical_section_title: Commonwealth Skyranger / Specifications (Model 185 Skyranger)
caption_attribution_description: Commonwealth 185, built in 1946, at Boeing Field, Seattle
context_page_description: The Commonwealth Skyranger, first produced as the Rearwin Skyranger, was the last design of Rearwin Aircraft before the company was purchased by a new owner and renamed Commonwealth Aircraft. It was a side-by-side, two-seat, high-wing taildragger.
context_section_description: Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1947
  General characteristics
  Crew: 2
  Length: 21 ft 9 in (6.63 m)
  Wingspan: 34 ft 0 in (10.36 m)
  Height: 6 ft 7 in (2 m)
  Wing area: 164.6 sq ft (15.29 m²)
  Empty weight: 910 lb (413 kg)
  Gross weight: 1,450 lb (658 kg)
  Fuel capacity: 24 US gal (20 imp gal; 91 l) in two wing tanks
  Powerplant: 1 × Continental C85 4-cyl. air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine, 85 hp (63 kW)
  Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch wooden airscrew, 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) diameter
  Performance
  Maximum speed: 114 mph (183 km/h, 99 kn)
  Cruise speed: 103 mph (166 km/h, 90 kn) 
  Landing speed: 48 mph (42 kn; 77 km/h)
  Range: 600 mi (970 km, 520 nmi)
  Endurance: 5 hrs 30 minutes (with reserve)
  Service ceiling: 14,000 ft (4,300 m)
  Rate of climb: 650 ft/min (3.3 m/s)
  Wing loading: 8.81 lb/sq ft (43.0 kg/m²)
  Power/mass: 17.06 lb/hp (10.3 kg/kW)  =
caption: Commonwealth 185, built in 1946, at Boeing Field, Seattle, in May 1989
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