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Grumman American AA-1
🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1963· sport, personal and trainer aircraft
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2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. American Aviation AA-1 Yankee ‘JA3613’ (48284302482): Alan Wilson from Peterborough, Cambs, UK· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Grumman.aa-1b.trainer.g-bdnx.arp: Arpingstone· Public domain
what is it?
The Grumman American AA-1 series is a family of light, two-seat aircraft. The family includes the original American Aviation AA-1 Yankee and AA-1A Trainer along with the TR-2. The TR-2 has a cruise propeller and the trainer has a climb prop.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 7.5 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 63 years ago, in 1963.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1963-07-11
- introduced
- 1968
- number built
- 1,820
- role
- sport, personal and trainer aircraft
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- American Aviation
- engines
- 1× Lycoming O-235-C2C
- length
- 5.9 m
- wingspan
- 7.5 m
- height
- 2.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 680 kg
- top speed
- 222 km/h
- cruise speed
- 201 km/h
- range
- 785 km
- ceiling
- 4,191 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2842852, Wikipedia: Grumman American AA-1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.