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what is it?
The P-1 Hawk (Curtiss Model 34) is a 1920s open-cockpit biplane fighter aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps. An earlier variant of the same aircraft had been designated PW-8 prior to 1925.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.6 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 103 years ago, in 1923.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 9.6 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1923-01
- introduced
- 1923
- number built
- 202
- role
- fighter plane
- makers
- Curtiss
- engines
- 1× Curtiss D-12C (Curtiss V-1150-3)
- crew
- 1
- length
- 7 m
- wingspan
- 9.6 m
- height
- 2.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,349 kg
- top speed
- 248 km/h
- cruise speed
- 198 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 6,340 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1145763, Wikipedia: Curtiss P-1 Hawk (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.