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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Boeing F3B Glendale: San Diego Air & Space Museum· Public domain
- 2. Boeing F3B Navy: NAS San Diego· Public domain
- 3. Lindbergh in F3B on USS Saratoga (CV-3) 1928: U.S. Navy (The photograph album features a brown leather cover on which is painted naval aviator wings and a starboard side view of USS Saratoga (CV-3) operating at sea. The photographs were taking on· Public domain
- 4. USS Lexington (CV-2) deck 1929 with F3B F6C T4M: U.S. Navy· Public domain
what is it?
The Boeing F3B was a biplane fighter and fighter bomber that served with the United States Navy from 1928 into the early 1930s.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.1 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 98 years ago, in 1928.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.1 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
- 1928-02-03
- introduced
- 1928
- number built
- 74
- role
- carrier-based fighter-bomber
- makers
- Boeing
- engines
- 1× Pratt & Whitney R-1340-80 Wasp
- crew
- 1
- length
- 7.6 m
- wingspan
- 10.1 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,336 kg
- top speed
- 253 km/h
- cruise speed
- 211 km/h
- range
- 547 km
- ceiling
- 6,553 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2908499, Wikipedia: Boeing F3B (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.