what is it?
The Breda Ba.25 was an Italian two-seat biplane trainer designed and built by the Breda company. It was the most widely used Italian basic trainer of the 1930s.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10 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 95 years ago, in 1931.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10 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
- 1931
- introduced
- 1932
- number built
- 839
- role
- trainer aircraft
- makers
- Breda
- engines
- 1× Alfa Romeo D2
- crew
- 2
- length
- 7.8 m
- wingspan
- 10 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,288 kg
- top speed
- 205 km/h
- cruise speed
- 195 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 7,498 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2222520, Wikipedia: Breda Ba.25 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.