what is it?
The Heinkel HD 24 was a training seaplane developed in Germany in the late 1920s. It was a conventional single-bay biplane with equal-span, staggered wings. The fuselage was braced to both the upper and lower wings with a number of struts on its sides, in addition to the normal cabane struts.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.2 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 100 years ago, in 1926.
- Wingspan of 14.2 m: about 3 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
- 1926-07
- number built
- 30
- role
- training seaplane
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- makers
- Heinkel
- engines
- 1× BMW IV
- crew
- 2
- length
- 8.6 m
- wingspan
- 14.2 m
- height
- 3.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,150 kg
- top speed
- 180 km/h
- range
- 600 km
- ceiling
- 4,500 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q319793, Wikipedia: Heinkel HD 24 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.