what is it?
The Fairey Hamble Baby was a British single-seat naval patrol floatplane designed and built by Fairey Aviation for the Royal Naval Air Service
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.5 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).
spec sheet
- first flight
- —
- introduced
- 1917
- status
- retired
- number built
- 180
- role
- floatplane scout
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- makers
- Fairey Aviation Company
- engines
- 1× Clerget
- length
- 7.1 m
- wingspan
- 8.5 m
- height
- 2.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 883 kg
- top speed
- 148 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 2,286 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4243922, Wikipedia: Fairey Hamble Baby (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.