what is it?
The RWD-15 was a Polish touring aircraft of 1937, designed by the RWD team and built by the Doświadczalne Warsztaty Lotnicze (DWL).
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 12.4 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 89 years ago, in 1937.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12.4 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,000 km: 6× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1937
- number built
- 5
- role
- touring aircraft
- makers
- Doświadczalne Warsztaty Lotnicze
- engines
- 1× de Havilland Gipsy Six II
- crew
- 1
- length
- 9 m
- wingspan
- 12.4 m
- height
- 2.5 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,360 kg
- top speed
- 240 km/h
- cruise speed
- 210 km/h
- range
- 1,000 km
- ceiling
- 5,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7278097, Wikipedia: RWD 15 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.