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what is it?
The Klemm Kl 36 is a 1930s German four-seat cabin touring and competition monoplane. It was designed by Klemm and Friedrich Fechner and built by Klemm.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · low wing · 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 92 years ago, in 1934.
- Top speed is 1.9× 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
- 1934
- introduced
- 1934
- number built
- 12
- role
- touring aircraft
- origin
- German Reich
- makers
- Klemm
- engines
- 1× Argus As 17A / Argus As 10 / Hirth HM 508 / Sh 14
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 3
- length
- 9.2 m
- wingspan
- 12 m
- height
- 2.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,050 kg
- top speed
- 250 km/h
- cruise speed
- 220 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,900 m
- wings
- low wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q820363, Wikipedia: Klemm Kl 36 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.