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- 1. Huff-Daland LB-1: United States Army Air Corps· Public domain
what is it?
The Huff-Daland LB-1 was an American biplane light bomber aircraft operated by the United States Army Air Service in the 1920s. Derived from the XLB-1 prototype bought by the Army in 1923, the LB-1 development aircraft was powered by a single Packard 2A-2500 engine and carried an extra crewman. It proved underpowered in service trials, and was replaced by the twin-engined XLB-3.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 20.3 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 103 years ago, in 1923.
- Wingspan of 20.3 m: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1923
- introduced
- 1923
- number built
- 10
- role
- single engine biplane bomber
- makers
- Huff-Daland Aero Corporation
- engines
- 1× Packard 2A-2500 water-cooled vee engine
- length
- 14.1 m
- wingspan
- 20.3 m
- height
- 4.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 5,631 kg
- top speed
- 190 km/h
- cruise speed
- 169 km/h
- range
- 692 km
- ceiling
- 3,400 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3142206, Wikipedia: Huff-Daland LB-1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.