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what is it?
The Aermacchi AL-60 is a light civil utility aircraft of the late 1950s and early 1960s, originally designed by Al Mooney of Lockheed in the United States. After the company decided not to build the aircraft in the US, it was manufactured in small quantities in Mexico, and a few were assembled in Argentina (Santa Isabel, Córdoba) by Aviones Lockheed-Kaiser Argentina. It was also built in quantity under licence by Aermacchi in Italy and Atlas Aircraft Corporation in South Africa.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11.8 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 67 years ago, in 1959.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.8 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1959
- status
- retired
- number built
- 180
- role
- utility aircraft
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Aermacchi
- engines
- 1× Continental TSIO-470-B-A1A
- passengers
- 8
- length
- 8.8 m
- wingspan
- 11.8 m
- height
- 3.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,746 kg
- top speed
- 238 km/h
- cruise speed
- 220 km/h
- range
- 885 km
- ceiling
- 6,700 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q381141, Wikipedia: Aermacchi AL-60 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.