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what is it?
The Great Lakes Sport Trainer is an American biplane trainer and aerobatic aircraft. It was originally produced in large numbers before the company building it went bankrupt in the Great Depression in 1933. Owing to its continuing popularity, however, it was eventually placed back into production in the 1970s and again in 2011 by WACO Classic Aircraft.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.1 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 97 years ago, in 1929.
- Top speed is 1.6× 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
- 1929
- number built
- —
- role
- trainer/tourer
- engines
- 1× Lycoming IO-360-B1F6
- crew
- 2
- length
- 6.2 m
- wingspan
- 8.1 m
- height
- 2.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 816 kg
- top speed
- 213 km/h
- cruise speed
- 189 km/h
- range
- 482 km
- ceiling
- 5,182 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1544302, Wikipedia: Great Lakes Sport Trainer (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.