List of short-haul aircraft

The following is a list of commercial short-haul civilian passenger aircraft

Background

Passenger aircraft used for short-haul flights have become increasingly known as regional aircraft and regional airliners. Additionally, the initial development of short-haul jet airliners were a source of national pride, for this was one market the rest of the developed world could still have hope of succeeding within, as the long-range jetliner market was all but completely dominated by the Americans after the British de Havilland Comet lost its initial advantage.^{[citation needed]}

In the past, short-haul aircraft were often part of "mainline" airline fleets. Increasingly, the "short haul/short range" flying operations conducted by short-haul "regional" aircraft are being outsourced (or sub-contracted)^[1] by flag carriers, mainline carriers, and legacy carriers; to separately- but similarly-managed regional airlines.

civilian passenger aircraft pre-WWII

less than 40 seats

DC-2 of KLM

• Boeing 247 (1933)
• Curtiss Condor
• de Havilland Dragon Rapide
• Douglas DC-2
• Douglas DC-3
• Fokker F.VII
• Ford Trimotor (1925)
• Junkers Ju 52 (1930)
• Lockheed Model 10 Electra
• Vultee V-1

Post-war to 1978

Airlines were deregulated in 1978 in the US

post-World War II non-jet

de Havilland Dove

Douglas DC-3

• Airspeed Ambassador
• Antonov An-2
• de Havilland Dove
• de Havilland Heron
• de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover
• Convair CV-240
• Ilyushin Il-12
• Ilyushin Il-14
• Martin 2-0-2
• Martin 4-0-4
• Saab 90 Scandia
• War surplus Douglas DC-3s
• Vickers VC.1 Viking
• Vickers Viscount

post-Korean War to 1970

(Including first-generation short-haul turbojet and turbofan airliners)

Mohawk F-27

Reciprocating piston and turbine propelled short-haul airliners

• Convair 540/580/600/640 conversions
• Fairchild Hiller FH-227
• Fokker F27
• Handley Page Dart Herald (1955)
• Hawker Siddeley HS 748 (1960)
• Lockheed L-188 Electra
• NAMC YS-11
• Vickers Vanguard (1959)

First generation short-haul "turbojet" airliners

Allegheny Airlines DC-9-30 circa 1970

• Aerospatiale Caravelle

First generation short-haul "turbo fanjet" airliners

• Tupolev Tu-124
• Fokker F28
• Hawker Siddeley Trident
• Douglas DC-9

less than 40 seats prior to 1978

Britten-Norman Islander

"Air-Taxis," "Commuters," and "Feederliners"

• Antonov An-28
• Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander
• Britten-Norman Trislander
• Cessna 402
• Cessna 404
• Dornier Do 28
• Piper PA-31 Navajo

Unpressurized feederliners and short-haul "mini-airliners"

EMB 110P1

• Beechcraft Model 99
• Beriev Be-30
• CASA C-212 Aviocar
• de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
• Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
• Let L-410 Turbolet
• Saunders ST-27
• Short 330

Pressurized short-haul turboprop propelled "mini-airliners," the first "modern regional airliners"

• Aérospatiale N 262
• Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
• Handley Page Jetstream

Turbofan propelled first generation "mini-airliners," the first "regional jets"

An Aérospatiale Corvette marketed and flown under the "banner" and colors of Air France upon French regional routes, but operated by regional airline Air Alpes.

• Aérospatiale Corvette
• VFW-614
• Yakovlev Yak-40

1980s & 1990s

• Airbus A320
• Boeing 737-300
• Boeing 737-400
• Boeing 737-500
• BAe 146

• Fokker 70
• Fokker 100
• Yakovlev Yak-42

AirTran Airways Boeing 717

The following aircraft are generally considered among the class of "Regional jets" rather than short-haul airliners. These aircraft are never flown by "mainline airlines" or "legacy airline carriers" in the U.S., but may turn up in the a "legacy" or "mainlines" wholly owned regional airline subsidiaries fleet. Some "Flag airline carriers" in other parts of the world have included "regional jets" among their "flagship fleets".

• • Canadair CRJ-100
  • Canadair CRJ-200
  • Canadair CRJ-700
  • Canadair CRJ-900
  • Canadair CRJ-1000

• • Embraer ERJ-145
  • Embraer ERJ-140
  • Embraer ERJ-135

• • Fairchild Dornier 328Jet

2000 & onward

Embraer ERJ 145 in current livery of Flag airline carrier Luxair

The following short-haul airliners, have turned up at "mainline airline carriers" in the U.S. and Canada, as well as many "low-cost carriers" and even "Flag airlines" across the world, but as yet have not found a place or a home with the "seemingly perpetually struggling mainline operations at the big legacy carriers" in the United States.

• Antonov An-148
• Boeing 717
• Embraer E-Jets (Note: JetBlue Airways, Air Canada and many other airlines operate these as part of their mainline operations rather than as regional airliners.)

• Embraer E-170
• Embraer E-175

LOT Polish Airlines 737-500

2005 & onward

• Embraer E-190
• Embraer E-195
• Bombardier Aerospace C-Series under development

• • ARJ21
  • Sukhoi Superjet 100
  • Mitsubishi Regional Jet
  • MS 21

See also

• Passenger aircraft
• Fairchild Dornier 728 family

Air Canada Embraer EMB 190

Notes

References