what is it?
The de Havilland DH.91 Albatross was a four-engined British transport aircraft of the 1930s manufactured by de Havilland Aircraft Company Limited. Seven aircraft were built between 1938 and 1939.
How to recognise it: 4 piston engines with propellers · 32 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 89 years ago, in 1937.
- Top speed is 2.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 32 m: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
- Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 2 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Range of 1,722 km: 10× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1937-05-20
- introduced
- 1938
- retired
- 1943
- status
- retired
- number built
- 7
- role
- mail plane and transport aircraft
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- makers
- Hatfield, de Havilland Aircraft Company
- engines
- 4× de Havilland Gipsy Twelve / Gipsy Twelve
- passengers
- 30
- length
- 21.8 m
- wingspan
- 32 m
- height
- 6.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 13.4 t
- top speed
- 362 km/h
- cruise speed
- 338 km/h
- range
- 1,722 km
- ceiling
- 5,700 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1050894, Wikipedia: De Havilland Albatross (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.