what is it?
The Aero Commander 100, various models of which were known as the Darter Commander and Lark Commander, is an American light aircraft produced in the 1960s. It was a high-wing monoplane of conventional design, equipped with fixed tricycle undercarriage.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.7 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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.7 m: about 2 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
- 1960
- number built
- —
- role
- light aircraft
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Volaircraft, Aero Commander
- engines
- 1× Lycoming O-320-A / Lycoming O-320
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 3
- length
- 6.9 m
- wingspan
- 10.7 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,021 kg
- top speed
- 214 km/h
- cruise speed
- 206 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 3,962 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2825604, Wikipedia: Aero Commander 100 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.