what is it?
The Culver Model V is a two-seat cabin monoplane designed and built by the Culver Aircraft Company.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.8 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 80 years ago, in 1946.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1946
- number built
- —
- role
- two-seat cabin monoplane
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Culver Aircraft Company
- engines
- 1× Continental C85 4-cyl. air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine
- length
- 6.3 m
- wingspan
- 8.8 m
- height
- 2.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 726 kg
- top speed
- —
- cruise speed
- 201 km/h
- range
- 544 km
- ceiling
- 4,025 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5193737, Wikipedia: Culver Model V (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.