what is it?
The Hawker Fury is a British biplane fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force in the 1930s. It was a fast, agile aircraft, and the first interceptor in RAF service faster than 200 mph (320 km/h) in level flight. It was the fighter counterpart to the Hawker Hart light bomber.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.1 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 95 years ago, in 1931.
- Top speed is 2.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 9.1 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.0× 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
- 1931-03-25
- introduced
- 1931
- retired
- 1939
- status
- retired
- number built
- 275
- role
- fighter
- makers
- Hispano-Suiza, Ikarbus, Hawker Aircraft, Zmaj aircraft
- engines
- 1× Rolls-Royce Kestrel IV / Kestrel
- crew
- 1
- length
- 8.2 m
- wingspan
- 9.1 m
- height
- 3.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,637 kg
- top speed
- 359 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 8,992 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q577389, Wikipedia: Hawker Fury (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.