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what is it?
The Ansaldo A.300 was an Italian general-purpose biplane aircraft built by the Ansaldo company (now part of FIAT) of Turin from 1920 to 1929. It also served as a light bomber, transport, fighter and reconnaissance aircraft, and finally as an advanced trainer, with examples in service as late as 1940. 50 examples were also license-built in Poland at ZM E. Plage & T. Laśkiewicz, but were not a success due to poor quality.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 11.2 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 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.2 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1919
- number built
- 850
- role
- reconnaissance aircraft
- engines
- 1× Fiat A.12bis piston engine
- length
- 8.8 m
- wingspan
- 11.2 m
- height
- 3 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,700 kg
- top speed
- 200 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,500 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q25704, Wikipedia: Ansaldo A.300 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.