what is it?
The Berliner-Joyce P-16 was a 1930s United States two-seat fighter aircraft produced by Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corporation.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.4 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 96 years ago, in 1930.
- Top speed is 2.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.4 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,046 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
- 1930
- introduced
- 1932
- retired
- 1940
- status
- retired
- number built
- 26
- role
- two-seat fighter
- engines
- 1× Curtiss V-1570-25 Conqueror
- crew
- 2
- length
- 8.6 m
- wingspan
- 10.4 m
- height
- 3.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,800 kg
- top speed
- 282 km/h
- range
- 1,046 km
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3912822, Wikipedia: Berliner-Joyce P-16 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.