what is it?
The Boeing F2B was an American biplane fighter aircraft of the United States Navy in the 1920s, familiar to aviation enthusiasts of the era as the craft of the Three Sea Hawks aerobatic flying team, famous for its tied-together formation flying.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.2 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 100 years ago, in 1926.
- Top speed is 2.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 9.2 m: about 2 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
- 1926-11-03
- introduced
- 1928
- number built
- 35
- role
- carrier-based fighter
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Boeing
- engines
- 1× Pratt & Whitney R-1340-8 Wasp
- crew
- 1
- length
- 7 m
- wingspan
- 9.2 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,272 kg
- top speed
- 254 km/h
- cruise speed
- 212 km/h
- range
- 507 km
- ceiling
- 6,555 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q527994, Wikipedia: Boeing F2B (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.