Dewoitine D.21

what is it?

The Dewoitine D.21 was a 1920s French open-cockpit, fixed-undercarriage, parasol winged monoplane fighter aircraft.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · high wing · 12.8 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 267 km/htop speed
• range 400 kmwithout refuelling
• size 1,590 kgmax take-off weight

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 101 years ago, in 1925.
• 🏎️Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 12.8 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.0× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1925

number built

—

role

fighter

makers

Dewoitine

engines

1× Hispano-Suiza 12Gb

crew

1

length

7.9 m

wingspan

12.8 m

height

3.3 m

max take-off weight

1,590 kg

top speed

267 km/h

range

400 km

ceiling

8,991 m

wings

high wing

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