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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Boeing P-12E USAF: This image was released by the United States Air Force with the ID 050309-F-1234P-015 (next) . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still req· Public domain
- 2. F4B: SDASM Archives· Public domain
- 3. Model 100: SDASM Archives· Public domain
- 4. Model 218: San Diego Air & Space Museum· Public domain
- 5. Boeing P-12E AN2021915: Chris Finney· GFDL 1.2
what is it?
The Boeing P-12 or Boeing F4B is an American fighter aircraft that was operated by the United States Army Air Corps, United States Marine Corps, and United States Navy. It was the chief fighter aircraft in American service during the early 1930s but also used internationally. By the late 1930s it was replaced in front-line duty by newer designs, but it was still used for training into the early 1940s.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.1 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 2.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 9.1 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
- introduced
- 1930
- retired
- 1949
- status
- retired
- number built
- 586
- role
- fighter aircraft
- makers
- Boeing
- engines
- 1× Pratt & Whitney R-1340-17 Wasp / R-1340 Wasp
- crew
- 1
- length
- 6.2 m
- wingspan
- 9.1 m
- height
- 2.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,220 kg
- top speed
- 304 km/h
- cruise speed
- 257 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 8,016 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q890203, Wikipedia: Boeing P-12 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.