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- 1. Lockheed Vega Air Express NASA GPN-2000-001390: NACA (NASA/LARC)· Public domain
what is it?
The Lockheed Air Express was the second aircraft design created by the Lockheed Aircraft Company after its founding in 1927; the type first flew in April 1928.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 13 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 98 years ago, in 1928.
- Top speed is 2.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 13 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
- 1928-04
- number built
- 8
- role
- passenger and mail transport
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Lockheed Corporation
- engines
- 1× Pratt & Whitney Wasp C / R-1340 Wasp
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 4
- length
- 8.4 m
- wingspan
- 13 m
- height
- 2.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,984 kg
- top speed
- 283 km/h
- cruise speed
- 243 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 5,258 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q3561317, Wikipedia: Lockheed Air Express (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.