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what is it?
The de Havilland DH.50 was a 1920s British large single-engined biplane transport built by de Havilland at Stag Lane Aerodrome, Edgware, and licence-built in Australia, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 13 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.
- Wingspan of 13 m: about 3 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
- introduced
- 1923
- retired
- 1942
- status
- retired
- number built
- 38
- role
- transport biplane
- makers
- de Havilland Aircraft Company
- engines
- 1× Siddeley Puma / Puma
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 4
- length
- 9.1 m
- wingspan
- 13 m
- height
- 3.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,905 kg
- top speed
- 175 km/h
- cruise speed
- 153 km/h
- range
- 612 km
- ceiling
- 4,450 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q286710, Wikipedia: De Havilland DH.50 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.