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what is it?
The Dewoitine D.338 was a 1930s French 22-passenger airliner built by Dewoitine. The D.338 was a late-1930s French airliner and served on long-distance routes. When World War II began it was pressed into military service.
How to recognise it: 3 piston engines with propellers · 29.4 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 90 years ago, in 1936.
- Top speed is 2.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 29.4 m: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 2,000 km: 11× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1936
- number built
- 30
- role
- airliner
- makers
- Dewoitine
- engines
- 3× Hispano-Suiza 9V-16 / Hispano-Suiza 9V-17 / Hispano-Suiza 9V
- crew
- 3
- length
- 22.1 m
- wingspan
- 29.4 m
- height
- 5.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 11 t
- top speed
- 310 km/h
- cruise speed
- 260 km/h
- range
- 2,000 km
- ceiling
- 4,900 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q824683, Wikipedia: Dewoitine D.338 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.