Aircraft Tail Height is specified as which value?

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Aircraft Tail Height is specified as which value?

The tail height is the vertical distance from the ground to the top of the aircraft’s tail (the highest point of the tail surface) when the aircraft sits on its landing gear. This dimension is what you’d check to ensure clearance under hangar doors, gates, or other overhead obstacles, and it’s published in the aircraft’s data in both metric and imperial units. For this aircraft, the published tail height is 4.36 meters, which equals 14 feet 4 inches when converted and rounded. That’s the value used in the performance data for tail clearance. The other numbers would correspond to different height references (like cabin or fuselage height) and don’t reflect the tail’s highest point.

The tail height is the vertical distance from the ground to the top of the aircraft’s tail (the highest point of the tail surface) when the aircraft sits on its landing gear. This dimension is what you’d check to ensure clearance under hangar doors, gates, or other overhead obstacles, and it’s published in the aircraft’s data in both metric and imperial units.

For this aircraft, the published tail height is 4.36 meters, which equals 14 feet 4 inches when converted and rounded. That’s the value used in the performance data for tail clearance. The other numbers would correspond to different height references (like cabin or fuselage height) and don’t reflect the tail’s highest point.

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