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- 1. Ba swallow II g-afge of 1937 arp: Adrian Pingstone ( Arpingstone )· Public domain
what is it?
The B.A Swallow was a British light aircraft of the 1930s. It was a license-built version by the British Klemm Aeroplane Company (which later became known as the British Aircraft Manufacturing Co.) of the German Klemm L.25. A total of 135 were built.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 13 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 93 years ago, in 1933.
- Wingspan of 13 m: about 3 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
- 1933
- number built
- 135
- role
- light tourer
- makers
- British Aircraft Manufacturing
- engines
- 1× Pobjoy Cataract II
- crew
- 2
- length
- 8 m
- wingspan
- 13 m
- height
- 2.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 680 kg
- top speed
- 167 km/h
- cruise speed
- 145 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,182 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q776001, Wikipedia: British Aircraft Swallow (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.