what is it?
The Ikarus IK-2 was a 1930s high-wing, single-seat, monoplane fighter aircraft of Yugoslav design built for the Royal Yugoslav Army Air Force. The IK-2 was designed by French-trained engineers Kosta Sivčev and Ljubomir Ilić, who saw the desirability of developing a home-grown aircraft industry. A gull-wing design, it was armed with a hub-firing autocannon and fuselage-mounted synchronised machine guns.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11.4 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 91 years ago, in 1935.
- Top speed is 3.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.4 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Can fly 1.4× 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
- 1935-04-22
- introduced
- 1935
- retired
- 1945
- status
- retired
- number built
- 14
- role
- fighter
- origin
- Yugoslavia
- makers
- Ikarbus
- engines
- 1× Hispano-Suiza 12Ycrs
- crew
- 1
- length
- 7.9 m
- wingspan
- 11.4 m
- height
- 3.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,857 kg
- top speed
- 435 km/h
- cruise speed
- 250 km/h
- range
- 700 km
- ceiling
- 12,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1658088, Wikipedia: Ikarus IK-2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.