what is it?
The Edo OSE was a 1940s American single-seat multi-role floatplane designed and manufactured by the Edo Aircraft Corporation.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11.6 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 80 years ago, in 1946.
- Top speed is 2.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.6 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
- 1946
- number built
- 10
- role
- single-seat multirole floatplane
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Edo Aircraft Corporation
- engines
- 1× Ranger V-770-8
- crew
- 1
- length
- 9.5 m
- wingspan
- 11.6 m
- height
- 4.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,751 kg
- top speed
- 319 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 6,797 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5340142, Wikipedia: Edo OSE (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.