what is it?
The Blériot-SPAD S.56 was a family of French airliners developed in the 1920s as various refinements of the S.33 design. All S.56 versions shared two new features: the first was a newly designed, all-metal wing, replacing the wooden wing of earlier related designs and the second was a redesigned passenger cabin, replacing the S.33's four single seats in a row with two rows of double seats. A second access door was also added.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 13.1 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 103 years ago, in 1923.
- Wingspan of 13.1 m: about 3 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
- 1923
- number built
- 22
- role
- airliner
- makers
- Blériot
- engines
- 1× Gnome & Rhône 9Ady
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 6
- length
- 9 m
- wingspan
- 13.1 m
- height
- 4.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,428 kg
- top speed
- 195 km/h
- range
- 620 km
- ceiling
- 4,800 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q887067, Wikipedia: Blériot-SPAD S.56 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.