what is it?
The Caproni Vizzola F.5 was an Italian fighter aircraft that was built by Caproni. It was a single-seat, low-wing cantilever monoplane with retractable landing gear.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11.3 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 87 years ago, in 1939.
- Top speed is 3.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.3 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.1× 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
- 1939-02-19
- introduced
- 1939
- number built
- 13
- role
- fighter
- makers
- Caproni
- engines
- 1× Fiat A.74 R.C.38
- length
- 7.9 m
- wingspan
- 11.3 m
- height
- 3 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,238 kg
- top speed
- 510 km/h
- range
- 770 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 Q324770, Wikipedia: Caproni Vizzola F.5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.