SPAD S.XI

what is it?

The SPAD S.XI or SPAD 11 is a French two-seat biplane reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War. The SPAD 11 was the work of Louis Béchereau, chief designer of the Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés (SPAD), who also designed the highly successful SPAD 7 and SPAD 13 single-seat fighter aircraft. It was developed under military specification C2, which called for a two-seat fighter aircraft.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · biplane · 11.2 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 180 km/htop speed
• size 1,035 kgmax take-off weight
• built 1,000made 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

• 🚗Wingspan of 11.2 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

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number built

1,000

role

reconnaissance aircraft

makers

Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés

engines

1× Hispano-Suiza 8Bc / Hispano-Suiza 8Be

crew

2

length

7.8 m

wingspan

11.2 m

height

2.8 m

max take-off weight

1,035 kg

top speed

180 km/h

range

—

ceiling

7,000 m

wings

biplane

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