what is it?
The Aerotec A-132 Tangará (originally the Uirapuru II) was a Brazilian military trainer aircraft developed from the A-122 Uirapuru of the 1960s.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9 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 45 years ago, in 1981.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 9 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
- 1981-02-26
- number built
- 7
- role
- primary trainer
- origin
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- makers
- Aerotec
- engines
- 1× Lycoming O-320-B2B
- crew
- 2
- length
- 7.1 m
- wingspan
- 9 m
- height
- 2.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 860 kg
- top speed
- 238 km/h
- cruise speed
- 174 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 4,500 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q4688479, Wikipedia: Aerotec A-132 Tangará (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.