what is it?
The Fiat G.18 was an Italian airliner developed in the mid-1930s.
How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · low wing · retractable tailwheel (taildragger) · 25 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 91 years ago, in 1935.
- Top speed is 3.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 25 m: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,675 km: 9× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1935-03-18
- introduced
- 1936
- retired
- 1945
- status
- retired
- number built
- 9
- role
- airliner
- origin
- Kingdom of Italy
- makers
- Fiat Aviazione
- engines
- 2× Fiat A.80
- passengers
- 18
- length
- 18.8 m
- wingspan
- 25 m
- height
- 5 m
- max take-off weight
- 10.8 t
- top speed
- 400 km/h
- range
- 1,675 km
- ceiling
- 8,700 m
- wings
- low wing
- landing gear
- retractable conventional landing gear
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q550486, Wikipedia: Fiat G.18 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.