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what is it?
The Beriev Be-4 (originally designated KOR-2) was a reconnaissance flying boat built to operate from Soviet warships during World War II.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · high wing · 12 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 86 years ago, in 1940.
- Top speed is 2.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,150 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
- 1940-10-21
- introduced
- 1941
- retired
- 1947
- status
- retired
- number built
- 44
- role
- reconnaissance flying boat
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- makers
- Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Kimry, Beriev
- engines
- 1× Shvetsov M-62 radial / ASh-62
- length
- 10.5 m
- wingspan
- 12 m
- height
- 4.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,760 kg
- top speed
- 356 km/h
- range
- 1,150 km
- ceiling
- 8,100 m
- wings
- high wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q431014, Wikipedia: Beriev Be-4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.