what is it?
The Hanriot HD.1 is a French World War I single-seat fighter aircraft. Rejected for service with French squadrons in favour of the SPAD S.VII, the type was supplied to the Aviation Militaire Belge (Belgian Military Aviation) and the Corpo Aeronautico Militare (Military Aviation Corps) of the Royal Italian Army, with both of which it proved highly successful. Of a total of about 1,200 examples built, 831 were produced by Italian companies under licence.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.7 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 110 years ago, in 1916.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1916
- introduced
- 1916
- number built
- 1,126
- role
- biplane fighter aircraft
- makers
- Hanriot
- engines
- 1× Le Rhône 9J
- crew
- 1
- length
- 5.9 m
- wingspan
- 8.7 m
- height
- 2.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 652 kg
- top speed
- 184 km/h
- range
- 550 km
- ceiling
- 6,400 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q675924, Wikipedia: Hanriot HD.1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.