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- 1. Avro Baby: Rlandmann· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Avro 534 Baby (originally named the "Popular") was a British single-seat light sporting biplane built shortly after the First World War.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 7.6 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.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1919
- number built
- 12
- role
- sports plane
- makers
- Avro
- engines
- 1× Green C.4
- crew
- 1
- length
- 5.3 m
- wingspan
- 7.6 m
- height
- 2.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 374 kg
- top speed
- 129 km/h
- cruise speed
- 113 km/h
- range
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Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q791421, Wikipedia: Avro Baby (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.