what is it?
The Caproni Ca.114 was a fighter biplane produced in Italy in the early 1930s which was flown operationally in Peru in the 1930s and 1940s.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 10.5 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.
- Top speed is 2.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.5 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.1× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1933
- number built
- 36
- role
- fighter
- makers
- Caproni
- engines
- 1× Alfa Romeo license built Bristol Mercury IV
- length
- 7.7 m
- wingspan
- 10.5 m
- height
- 2.5 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,660 kg
- top speed
- 355 km/h
- range
- 600 km
- ceiling
- 9,500 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q747002, Wikipedia: Caproni Ca.114 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.