3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Hawker Nimrod II in flight: Alex Layzell· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Nimrod II: TSRL· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. Japanese Hawker Nimrod vorn rechts: Imperial Japanese Navy· Public domain
what is it?
The Hawker Nimrod is a British carrier-based single-engine, single-seat biplane fighter aircraft built in the early 1930s by Hawker Aircraft.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.2 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 96 years ago, in 1930.
- Top speed is 2.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.2 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
- 1930
- introduced
- 1933
- number built
- 92
- role
- naval fighter
- makers
- Hawker Aircraft
- engines
- 1× Rolls-Royce Kestrel VFP / Kestrel VFP
- crew
- 1
- length
- 8.1 m
- wingspan
- 10.2 m
- height
- 3 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,837 kg
- top speed
- 312 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 8,534 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2324616, Wikipedia: Hawker Nimrod (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.