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what is it?
The Cerva CE.43 Guépard is a 1970s French four/five seat cabin monoplane produced by Cerva.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10 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 55 years ago, in 1971.
- Top speed is 2.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 2,900 km: 16× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1971-05-18
- number built
- 43
- role
- four/five seat cabin monoplane
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- CERVA
- engines
- 1× Avco Lycoming IO-540-C4B5 / IO-540-C4B5
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 4
- length
- 7.9 m
- wingspan
- 10 m
- height
- 2.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,460 kg
- top speed
- 320 km/h
- cruise speed
- 280 km/h
- range
- 2,900 km
- ceiling
- 5,300 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q670802, Wikipedia: Cerva CE.43 Guépard (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.