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Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK
🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1945· dive bomber and torpedo bomber
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. XBTK-1 with drop tank 1945: U.S. Navy· Public domain
what is it?
The Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK was an American dive and torpedo bomber developed by Kaiser-Fleetwings for the United States Navy starting in 1944. After only five examples had been built, with the first two being flying prototypes; the contract was terminated in September 1946.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.8 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 81 years ago, in 1945.
- Top speed is 4.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 14.8 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.2× 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
- 1945
- number built
- 5
- role
- dive bomber and torpedo bomber
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Fleetwings
- engines
- 1× Pratt & Whitney R-2800-34W
- length
- 11.9 m
- wingspan
- 14.8 m
- height
- 4.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 7,159 kg
- top speed
- 600 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 10,180 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6348373, Wikipedia: Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.