Specifications (P-36A)
Data from Curtiss Fighter Aircraft: A Photographic History 1917-1948
General characteristics
- Crew: 1
- Length: 28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
- Wingspan: 37 ft 4 in (11.4 m)
- Height: 8 ft 5 in (2.6 m)
- Wing area: 235.94 ft² (21.92 m²)
- Empty weight: 4,567 lb (2,076 kg)
- Loaded weight: 5,650 lb (2,560 kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 6,010 lb (2,732 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney R-1830-17 Twin Wasp air-cooled radial piston engine, 1,050 hp (783 kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 313 mph (272 knots, 500 km/h) at 8,500 ft, 2,960 m
- Cruise speed: 270 mph (235 knots, 432 km/h)
- Range: 625 mi (543 nmi, 1,006 km) at 270 mph (419 km/h), 860 mi (748 nmi, 1,385 km) at 200 mph
- Service ceiling: 32,700 ft (9,967 m)
- Rate of climb: 3,400 ft/min (17 m/s)
- Wing loading: 23.9 lb/ft² (116.8 kg/m²)
- Power/mass: 0.186 hp/lb (306w/kg)
Armament
- 1 × 0.30 in (7.62 mm) M1919 Browning machine gun
- 1 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine gun
- later production variants had two .50 MGs synchronized with the propeller mounted in the engine cowl and two or four .30 MGs mounted in the wings just outside the propeller arc
- some were also later fitted with a single hardpoint under each wing that could carry a bomb of up to 100 lb (45 kg) or a light bomb rack for three 50 lb (23 kg), five 20 lb (9 kg) or 30 lb (14 kg) bombs
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