De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk

what is it?

The de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk (or Chippie) is a tandem, two-seat, single-engined primary trainer aircraft designed and developed by Canadian aircraft manufacturer de Havilland Canada. It was developed shortly after the Second World War and sold in large numbers during the immediate post-war years, being typically employed as a replacement for the de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane. The type certificate of the aircraft is now held by De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (DHC) founded in 2019.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · fixed-wing aircraft · 10.5 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 222 km/htop speed
• range 445 kmwithout refuelling
• size 998 kgmax take-off weight
• built 1,283made in total

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.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 10.5 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

1946-05-22

introduced

1946

retired

1955

status

still flying

number built

1,283

role

trainer

origin

🇨🇦 Canada

makers

de Havilland Canada

engines

1× de Havilland Gipsy Major 1C / Gipsy Major 8 / Gipsy Major 10

crew

2

length

7.8 m

wingspan

10.5 m

height

2.2 m

max take-off weight

998 kg

top speed

222 km/h

cruise speed

166 km/h

range

445 km

ceiling

4,816 m

wings

fixed-wing aircraft

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.