what is it?
The Fairey Fox was a British light bomber and fighter biplane of the 1920s and 1930s. It was originally produced in Britain for the RAF, but continued in production and use in Belgium long after it was retired in Britain.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · biplane · fixed tailwheel (taildragger) · 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 101 years ago, in 1925.
- Top speed is 2.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.6 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.1× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1925-01-03
- introduced
- 1926
- retired
- 1945
- status
- retired
- number built
- 230
- role
- light bomber
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- makers
- Fairey Aviation Company
- engines
- 1× Hispano-Suiza 12Ybrs
- crew
- 2
- length
- 9.4 m
- wingspan
- 11.6 m
- height
- 3.5 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,345 kg
- top speed
- 360 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 9,997 m
- wings
- biplane
- landing gear
- fixed conventional landing gear
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1393168, Wikipedia: Fairey Fox (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.