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- 1. Schaffen Jodel DR1050: Ad Meskens· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Jodel DR1050 Excellence and Ambassadeur are part of a family of French built aircraft, designed by Jean Délémontez (the principal designer of Jodel aircraft) in collaboration with Pierre Robin, as a development of the Jodel D.10 project. The aircraft was built from 1958 to 1967 both by Centre-Est Aeronautique (CEA) (see Robin Aircraft) and by Société Aéronautique Normande (SAN) but since the demise of the latter in 1968 has only been supplied as plans.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.7 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
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
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- number built
- 618
- role
- amateur-built aircraft
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- engines
- 1× Continental O-200
- length
- 6.4 m
- wingspan
- 8.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 780 kg
- top speed
- 220 km/h
- cruise speed
- 210 km/h
- range
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Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1691271, Wikipedia: Jodel DR1050 Excellence (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.