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what is it?
The de Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird is a British single-seat, single-engine, low-wing monoplane light aircraft first flown in the 1920s.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.2 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 9.2 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
- 1923-10-02
- number built
- 15
- role
- ultralight monoplane
- makers
- de Havilland Aircraft Company
- engines
- 1× Blackburne Tomtit
- crew
- 1
- length
- 6 m
- wingspan
- 9.2 m
- height
- 2.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 256 kg
- top speed
- 117 km/h
- cruise speed
- 97 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 4,572 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1052035, Wikipedia: De Havilland DH.53 Humming Bird (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.