what is it?
The Arado Ar 79 was an aerobatic two-seat trainer and touring aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado. It was the final civilian aircraft developed by the company. The Ar 79 was developed during the mid-1930s as a successor to the Arado L I and Arado L II touring aircraft by the aeronautical engineer Walter Rethel.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · low 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 88 years ago, in 1938.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,025 km: 6× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1938-04-20
- introduced
- 1938
- number built
- 72
- role
- aerobatic trainer
- origin
- German Reich
- makers
- Arado Flugzeugwerke
- engines
- 1× Hirth HM 504A-2
- length
- 7.6 m
- wingspan
- 10 m
- height
- 2.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 760 kg
- top speed
- 230 km/h
- cruise speed
- 205 km/h
- range
- 1,025 km
- ceiling
- 5,300 m
- wings
- low wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q624850, Wikipedia: Arado Ar 79 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.