what is it?
The Bloch MB.210 and MB.211 were the successors of the French Bloch MB.200 bomber developed by Société des Avions Marcel Bloch in the 1930s and differed primarily in being low wing monoplanes rather than high wing monoplanes.
How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · low wing · retractable tailwheel (taildragger) · 22.8 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 92 years ago, in 1934.
- Top speed is 2.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 22.8 m: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,700 km: 9× Amsterdam to Brussels.
- Can fly 1.1× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1934-11-23
- introduced
- 1936
- retired
- 1945
- status
- retired
- number built
- 281
- role
- bomber
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- Bloch
- engines
- 2× Gnome-Rhône 14N-10 / Gnome-Rhône 14N-11
- crew
- 5
- length
- 18.8 m
- wingspan
- 22.8 m
- height
- 6.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 10.2 t
- top speed
- 322 km/h
- cruise speed
- 240 km/h
- range
- 1,700 km
- ceiling
- 9,900 m
- wings
- low wing
- landing gear
- retractable conventional landing gear
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q884630, Wikipedia: Bloch MB.210 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.