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- 1. Dewoitine D.9 L'Aéronautique January,1926: L'Aéronautique magazine· Public domain
what is it?
The Dewoitine D.9 was a French monoplane fighter built by Dewoitine and built under licence in Italy as the Ansaldo AC.3.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 12.8 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 102 years ago, in 1924.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12.8 m: about 3 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
- 1924-06
- number built
- 150
- role
- monoplane fighter
- makers
- Ansaldo, Dewoitine
- engines
- 1× Gnome-Rhône 9Ab Jupiter
- length
- 7.3 m
- wingspan
- 12.8 m
- height
- 3 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,333 kg
- top speed
- 245 km/h
- range
- 400 km
- ceiling
- 8,500 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3205629, Wikipedia: Dewoitine D.9 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.