what is it?
The Breda Ba.27 was a fighter produced in Italy in the 1930s, used by the Chinese Nationalist Air Force in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · low wing · 10.8 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 2.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.8 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.0× 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
- number built
- 14
- role
- fighter
- makers
- Breda
- engines
- 1× Alfa Romeo Mercurius radial engine / Bristol Mercury
- length
- 7.7 m
- wingspan
- 10.8 m
- height
- 3.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,850 kg
- top speed
- 380 km/h
- range
- 750 km
- ceiling
- 9,000 m
- wings
- low wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q489509, Wikipedia: Breda Ba.27 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.