How the Trident 3B fits into the Trident story
Trident 3B is the representative branch of the Hawker Siddeley Trident family, capturing the stretched final branch created to answer the family’s seat-count limits.
This page isolates the Trident 3B branch of the Hawker Siddeley Trident family, focusing on the engines, service entry, seating, range, and mission role that justify a dedicated variant page while keeping the family history on the canonical parent URL.
Service entry
1971
Seating
152 to 180
Range
2,100 nm
Variant history
Why it branches from the family
The Trident 3B is treated as the representative branch because it captures the stretched final branch created to answer the family’s seat-count limits.
Variant pages stay intentionally narrower than the family page so differences in cabin, engines, mission, and market role remain clear without duplicating the full program history.
Fact rows
Reference snapshot
- Engines
- Rolls-Royce Spey plus RB162 booster
- Type data
- Service entry
- 1971
- Operator records
- Typical seating
- 152 to 180
- Operator layouts
- Range
- 2,100 nm
- Planning data
Return to the family page
Variant pages stay intentionally narrower than family pages. They isolate meaningful technical or commercial differences while the canonical family page holds the broader historical narrative.