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what is it?
The Ace Baby Ace, a single-seat, single-engine, parasol wing, fixed-gear light airplane, was marketed as a homebuilt aircraft when its plans were first offered for sale in 1929 — one of the first homebuilt aircraft plans available in the United States. Plans are still available and Baby Aces are still being built. Orland Corben designed a series of aircraft for the Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company, the Baby Ace, Junior Ace, and Super Ace.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.1 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
spec sheet
- first flight
- —
- number built
- 453
- role
- sports aircraft
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Acro Sport
- engines
- 1× piston
- length
- 5.4 m
- wingspan
- 8.1 m
- height
- 2 m
- max take-off weight
- 431 kg
- top speed
- 177 km/h
- cruise speed
- 161 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 4,877 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2997057, Wikipedia: Ace Baby Ace (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.