what is it?
The Anatra V.I. (for Voisin-Ivanov, not the Roman numeral VI) was a Russian reconnaissance aircraft of World War I. It was a redesign of the French Voisin III undertaken by Podporuchik Piotr Ivanov in Zhmerynka. The Voisin's fuselage pod was replaced by a streamlined, plywood construction that included an all-new mount for the observer's machine gun and an aluminium firewall between the pilot's cockpit and the aircraft's fuel tank. The wings and landing gear were strengthened as well.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.7 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.
- Wingspan of 14.7 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
- 1916
- number built
- 139
- role
- reconnaissance aircraft
- makers
- Anatra
- engines
- 1× Salmson / Salmson water-cooled aircraft engine
- length
- 9.5 m
- wingspan
- 14.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,202 kg
- top speed
- 125 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 3,500 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q488462, Wikipedia: Anatra V.I. (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.