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- 1. EAA Acro Sport I AN0318488: Alan D R Brown· GFDL
what is it?
The Acro Sport is a single-seat aerobatic sportsplane designed by US aviation enthusiast Paul Poberezny in the early 1970s for homebuilding. Plans are marketed by Acro Sport Inc. The Acro Sport is a short-span biplane of conventional taildragger configuration, typically built with an open cockpit and spatted main undercarriage.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 6 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).
fun facts
- First flew 54 years ago, in 1972.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1972-01-11
- number built
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- role
- aerobatic sportsplane
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Acro Sport
- engines
- 1× Lycoming O-360
- length
- 5.3 m
- wingspan
- 6 m
- height
- 1.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 612 kg
- top speed
- 245 km/h
- cruise speed
- 209 km/h
- range
- 564 km
- ceiling
- 6,096 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2823475, Wikipedia: Acro Sport I (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.