Dewoitine D.371

what is it?

The Dewoitine 37 was the first of a family of 1930s French-built monoplane fighter aircraft.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11.8 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 400 km/htop speed
• range 1,150 kmwithout refuelling
• size 1,730 kgmax take-off weight
• built 87made 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

• 🎂First flew 95 years ago, in 1931.
• 🏎️Top speed is 3.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 11.8 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 1,150 km: 6× Amsterdam to Brussels.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.2× 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

1931-10-01

introduced

1938

number built

87

role

fighter

makers

Dewoitine

engines

1× Gnôme-Rhône 14Kds

crew

1

length

7.4 m

wingspan

11.8 m

height

3.2 m

max take-off weight

1,730 kg

top speed

400 km/h

range

1,150 km

ceiling

11,003 m

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