what is it?
The Halberstadt CL.II was a German two-seat escort fighter/ground attack aircraft of World War I. It served in large numbers with the German Luftstreitkräfte (Imperial German Army Air Service) in 1917-18.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.8 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 109 years ago, in 1917.
- Wingspan of 10.8 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1917
- number built
- 900
- role
- escort fighter/ground attack aircraft
- makers
- Halberstadt
- engines
- 1× Mercedes D.III
- crew
- 2
- passengers
- 2
- length
- 7.3 m
- wingspan
- 10.8 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,133 kg
- top speed
- 165 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,090 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q553281, Wikipedia: Halberstadt CL.II (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.