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what is it?
The Airco DH.5 was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft. It was designed and manufactured at British aviation company Airco. Development was led by aircraft designer Geoffrey de Havilland as a replacement for the obsolete Airco DH.2.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 7.8 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 110 years ago, in 1916.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1916
- introduced
- 1917
- number built
- 549
- role
- fighter
- makers
- Airco
- engines
- 1× Le Rhône 9J
- length
- 6.7 m
- wingspan
- 7.8 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 677 kg
- top speed
- 164 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 4,877 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q408475, Wikipedia: Airco DH.5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.