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what is it?
The Extra EA-500 is a six-seat single-engined high wing turboprop aircraft designed by the Extra Aircraft company. In 2015, a decision was made to end production.
How to recognise it: 1 turboprop · 11.7 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 24 years ago, in 2002.
- Top speed is 3.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.7 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 2,963 km: 16× Amsterdam to Brussels.
turboprop: A jet-style turbine turning a propeller: efficient on short hops.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 2002-04-26
- introduced
- 2002
- status
- still flying
- number built
- —
- role
- six-seat utility aircraft
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- engines
- 1× Rolls-Royce Model 250-B17F/2
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 5
- length
- 10.1 m
- wingspan
- 11.7 m
- height
- 3.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,130 kg
- top speed
- 435 km/h
- cruise speed
- 419 km/h
- range
- 2,963 km
- ceiling
- 7,620 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1385137, Wikipedia: Extra EA-500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.