what is it?
The Hispano Suiza E-30, later renamed Hispano E-30, was designed in Spain in 1930 as a multi-purpose intermediate trainer. It was a single engine, parasol wing monoplane. About 25 served with the Spanish armed forces until 1945.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 12 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 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12 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
- 1930
- introduced
- 1932
- number built
- 28
- role
- tandem seat trainer
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- makers
- Hispano Aviación
- engines
- 1× Hispano-Wright 9 Qd
- crew
- 2
- length
- 8 m
- wingspan
- 12 m
- height
- 3.5 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,350 kg
- top speed
- 225 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 6,500 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3785856, Wikipedia: Hispano-Suiza E-30 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.