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what is it?
The Airco DH.16 was an early British airliner designed by Geoffrey de Havilland, the chief designer at Airco. It accommodated a pilot plus four passengers, and was operated from 1919 to 1923.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.2 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 107 years ago, in 1919.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 14.2 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
- 1919
- introduced
- 1919
- retired
- 1923
- status
- retired
- number built
- 9
- role
- commercial biplane
- makers
- Airco
- engines
- 1× Napier Lion / Rolls-Royce Eagle
- length
- 9.7 m
- wingspan
- 14.2 m
- height
- 3.5 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,155 kg
- top speed
- 219 km/h
- cruise speed
- 161 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 6,401 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q408451, Wikipedia: Airco DH.16 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.