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Macchi M.B.308
🇮🇹 Italy ·first flew 1947· utility aircraft
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Aermacchi MB-308 in flight: Giorgio Varisco· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Macchi MB.308 I-EMAM Floats Como 31.07.65 edited-2: RuthAS· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
The Macchi MB.308, later Aermacchi MB-308, is a light aircraft produced in Italy in the late 1940s.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · high wing · 10 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 79 years ago, in 1947.
- Wingspan of 10 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
- 1947
- number built
- 183
- role
- utility aircraft
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- makers
- Alenia Aermacchi
- engines
- 1× Continental C85
- crew
- 2
- length
- 6.5 m
- wingspan
- 10 m
- height
- 2.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 650 kg
- top speed
- 197 km/h
- cruise speed
- 164 km/h
- range
- 760 km
- ceiling
- 4,500 m
- wings
- high wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3274169, Wikipedia: Macchi M.B.308 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.