what is it?
The Fiat CR.1 was an Italian biplane fighter aircraft of the 1920s. Of wood-and-fabric construction, it was designed by Celestino Rosatelli, from whom it gained the 'CR' designation. Its most distinctive feature was that the lower wings were longer than the upper ones.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9 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 103 years ago, in 1923.
- Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1923
- introduced
- 1924
- number built
- 240
- role
- fighter
- makers
- Fiat Aviazione
- engines
- 1× Isotta Fraschini Asso / Hispano-Suiza 8Fb
- crew
- 1
- length
- 6.2 m
- wingspan
- 9 m
- height
- 2.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,155 kg
- top speed
- 270 km/h
- range
- 650 km
- ceiling
- 7,450 m
- wings
- sesquiplane
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q373674, Wikipedia: Fiat CR.1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.