what is it?
The Arado L II was a 1920s German two-seat, high-wing touring monoplane. In 1930, a revised version with folding wings and improved undercarriage, the L IIa first flew, and four examples took part in the Challenge International de Tourisme 1930, starting from Berlin-Tempelhof airport, but none placed, and one crashed early in the race. Two examples competed in the Deutschlandflug in 1931.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11 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 97 years ago, in 1929.
- Wingspan of 11 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
- 1929-11
- number built
- 5
- role
- touring aircraft
- origin
- German Reich
- makers
- Arado Flugzeugwerke
- engines
- 1× Argus As 8R / Argus As 8
- length
- 6.7 m
- wingspan
- 11 m
- height
- 2.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 700 kg
- top speed
- 160 km/h
- range
- 700 km
- ceiling
- 2,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2859400, Wikipedia: Arado L II (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.