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what is it?
Desoutter is a British monoplane liaison aircraft manufactured by Desoutter Aircraft Company at Croydon Aerodrome, Surrey.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.9 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 96 years ago, in 1930.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.9 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
- 1930
- introduced
- 1930
- number built
- 41
- role
- liaison
- makers
- Desoutter Aircraft Company
- engines
- 1× de Havilland Gipsy III
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 2
- length
- 7.9 m
- wingspan
- 10.9 m
- height
- 2.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 863 kg
- top speed
- 201 km/h
- cruise speed
- 159 km/h
- range
- 800 km
- ceiling
- 5,200 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1200837, Wikipedia: Desoutter Mk.II (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.