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Dornier Do 28

🇩🇪 Germany ·first flew 1959· stol light utility aircraft

🛩️ light / GA 2× piston
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. Dornier Do 28 - Shuttleworth Spring Airshow 2009 (3498303438): Tim Felce (Airwolfhound)· CC BY-SA 2.0
  2. 2. Dornier 128: Thankers· Public domain
  3. 3. Dornier Do 28D Skyservant: Peter Nath· CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. 4. D-IFNT-Do28TNT-1980: MilborneOne· CC BY-SA 3.0
  5. 5. Do28A-1: Markus Kutscher, Frankfurt, Germany· Attribution
  6. 6. Dornier Do-28D Skyservant (cropped): Stefan Krause, Germany· FAL
  7. 7. Dornier Do28D-2 5862 JBG36 GC 07.07.73 edited-2: RuthAS· CC BY 3.0
  8. 8. Dornier Do28D Skyservant D-IBUL Le Bourget 03.06.67 edited-3: RuthAS· CC BY 3.0
  9. 9. Dornier Do 28 A1 from left Dornier Museum 2009-09-27: Bergfalke2· CC BY-SA 3.0
  10. 10. Dornier do 28 d2 sky 01: User:Raboe001· CC BY-SA 2.5
Read about it on Wikipedia ↗
Dornier Do 28, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Tim Felce (Airwolfhound)· CC BY-SA 2.0

what is it?

Dornier Do 28 is a type designation that comprises two different twin-engine STOL utility aircraft, manufactured by German company Dornier Flugzeugbau GmbH. Most of them served with the German Air Force and Marineflieger and other air forces around the world in the communications and utility role. The Do 28 series consists of the fundamentally different Do 28 A/B (1959) and Do 28 D Skyservant (1966).

How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · 13.8 m wingspan

base stats

  • speed 290 km/htop speed
  • range 1,235 kmwithout refuelling
  • seats 7passengers
  • size 2,720 kgmax take-off weight
  • built 121made 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 67 years ago, in 1959.
  • Top speed is 2.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
  • Wingspan of 13.8 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Range of 1,235 km: 7× Amsterdam to Brussels.

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

spec sheet

first flight
1959-04-29
number built
121
role
stol light utility aircraft
origin
🇩🇪 Germany
makers
Dornier
engines
2× Lycoming IO-540A
crew
1
passengers
7
length
9 m
wingspan
13.8 m
height
2.8 m
max take-off weight
2,720 kg
top speed
290 km/h
cruise speed
242 km/h
range
1,235 km
ceiling
6,300 m
wings
monoplane

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

Sources: Wikidata Q537793, Wikipedia: Dornier Do 28 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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