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Aero Commander 685 /
Rockwell 685
Rockwell Commander 685
Role Business aircraft
National origin United States
Manufacturer Aero Commander/Rockwell International
First flight 1971
Developed from Rockwell Commander 690

The Rockwell Commander 685orAero Commander 685[1] is a light-twin piston-engined aircraft with a pressurized cabin originally built by the Aero Commander company, a division of Rockwell International from 1965.

The predecessor model was the Aero Commander 690 and the next generation are Aero Commander JetProp series. The Aero Commander 685 had the ICAO aircraft code AC6L[2] The introduction was in 1971 and the retired in 1976; in this time are built 66 aircraft.[citation needed]

Design and development[edit]

The Commander 685 was a piston-engined variant of the turboprop-powered Rockwell Commander 690, with two wing-mounted 435 hpContinental GTSIO-520K piston engines in tractor configuration with three-bladed Hartzell feathering propellers. It is a high-wing cantilever monoplane with an enclosed nine-seat cabin and a retractable nose-wheel landing gear. The Model 685 was type certified by the Federal Aviation Administration on 17 September 1971.

Specifications[edit]

Data from Jane's All the Worlds Aircraft 1976–77[3]

General characteristics

Performance

References[edit]

  1. ^ Collins, Richard L. (January 1973). "On Top: Aero Commander 685". Flying. Vol. 92, no. 1. pp. 100–101. ISSN 0015-4806.
  • ^ Anderson, Lionel K. (2010). ICAO Aircraft Codes (ACARS - A Users Guide for the Aviation Enthusiast ed.). Las Antalayas Publishing. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-4457-8847-0.
  • ^ Taylor 1976, pp. 377–378
  • Further reading[edit]

    External links[edit]

    Media related to Rockwell 685 Commander at Wikimedia Commons


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