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Naval Aircraft Factory SBN
🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1936· scout bomber
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Naval Aircraft Factory SBN-1 in flight over Washington D.C. in February 1942: U.S. Navy· Public domain
what is it?
The Naval Aircraft Factory SBN was a United States three-seat mid-wing monoplane scout bomber/torpedo aircraft designed by the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation and built under license by the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The landing gear was similar to that on the Brewster F2A Buffalo fighter aircraft. The SBN had non-folding wings with perforated flaps.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 11.9 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 90 years ago, in 1936.
- Top speed is 3.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.9 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,633 km: 9× Amsterdam to Brussels.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1936
- introduced
- 1941
- number built
- 30
- role
- scout bomber
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
- engines
- 1× Wright XR-1820-22 Cyclone radial engine
- crew
- 3
- length
- 8.4 m
- wingspan
- 11.9 m
- height
- 2.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 3,066 kg
- top speed
- 409 km/h
- range
- 1,633 km
- ceiling
- 8,600 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q911492, Wikipedia: Naval Aircraft Factory SBN (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.