Bréguet 460 Vultur

what is it?

The Bréguet 460 Vultur was a French bomber of the 1930s. Few of these twin-engined monoplanes and its variant, the Breguet 462 Bréguet, were built. At least one Breguet 460 was sold to the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · 20.6 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 402 km/htop speed
• range 2,000 kmwithout refuelling
• size 8,200 kgmax take-off weight
• built 5made in total

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 91 years ago, in 1935.
• 🏎️Top speed is 3.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 20.6 m: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 2,000 km: 11× Amsterdam to Brussels.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1935

number built

5

role

bomber aircraft

origin

🇫🇷 France

engines

2× Gnome-Rhône 14N-0/N-1

length

14.8 m

wingspan

20.6 m

height

4.2 m

max take-off weight

8,200 kg

top speed

402 km/h

range

2,000 km

ceiling

8,300 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.