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what is it?
The Fieseler Fi 97 was a 1930s German four-seat cabin touring and competition monoplane aircraft designed and built by the German manufacturer Fieseler.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 10.7 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 92 years ago, in 1934.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.7 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,200 km: 7× Amsterdam to Brussels.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1934
- introduced
- 1934
- number built
- 5
- role
- touring aircraft
- makers
- Fieseler
- engines
- 1× Argus As 17A 6-cylinder inverted inline piston engine
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 3
- length
- 8 m
- wingspan
- 10.7 m
- height
- 2.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,050 kg
- top speed
- 245 km/h
- range
- 1,200 km
- ceiling
- 7,300 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q472919, Wikipedia: Fieseler Fi 97 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.