Pander S-4 Postjager

Pander S-4 Postjager
Role Mailplane
National origin Netherlands
Manufacturer Pander & Son
Designer Theo Slot
First flight 6 October 1933
Status Destroyed
Number built 1


The Pander S-4 Postjager was a 1930s Dutch three-engined mailplane designed and built by Pander & Son. Only one was built which was destroyed during the MacRobertson Air Race.[1]

Design and development

The S-4 was designed as a fast mailplane for the service between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies.[1] It was a three-seat low-wing monoplane powered by three 420 hp (313 kW) Wright Whirlwind radial engines.[1] It had a conventional retractable landing gear with a tailwheel.[1] The S-4, registered PH-OST, first flew on 6 October 1933.[1]

Operational history

In December 1933 it flew a mail flight to Batavia.[1] In 1934 the S-4 was entered into the MacRobertson Air Race between London and Melbourne.[1] It left Mildenhall in England on 20 October 1934 and after 36 hours arrived at Allahabad, India.[1] The aircraft was delayed when the landing gear was badly damaged on arrival at Allahabad.[2] It was ready to leave on the 26 October but while taxiing for departure it hit a motor car and burst into flames and was destroyed; the crew jumped out and escaped injury.[1][2]

Specifications

Data from The "Aerial Phost"[3]

General characteristics

Performance

References

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Orbis 1985, p. 2679
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Pander machine destroyed" (News). The Times (London). Saturday, 27 October 1934. (46896), col A, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Flight 5 October 1933, p. 992.
  4. ↑ Flight 18 October 1934, p. 1082.

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