what is it?
The CAB GY-30 Supercab was a two-seat light aircraft built in France in 1954, as a further development of the CAB Minicab. The design was performed by Yves Gardan, a onetime employee of French aeronautical company SIPA. Changes incorporated in the Supercab (from the Minicab) included a more powerful engine, greater wingspan, manually retractable undercarriage, and slotted flaps that replaced the split flaps of the Minicab. Seven units were constructed by CAB before the rights to the design were sold to Gardan's former employer (SIPA), who developed the design into the SIPA 1000.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.2 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 72 years ago, in 1954.
- Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1954
- number built
- 7
- role
- utility aircraft
- makers
- Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn
- engines
- 1× Continental C90
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 1
- length
- 5.5 m
- wingspan
- 8.2 m
- height
- 1.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 613 kg
- top speed
- 275 km/h
- cruise speed
- 235 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5008527, Wikipedia: CAB Supercab (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.