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what is it?
The Loire 210 was a French single-seat catapult-launched fighter seaplane designed and built by Loire Aviation for the French Navy.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11.8 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 2.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.8 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
- 1935-03-21
- introduced
- 1938
- retired
- 1939
- status
- retired
- number built
- 20
- role
- single-seat fighter seaplane
- makers
- Loire Aviation
- engines
- 1× Hispano-Suiza 9Vbs radial piston engine / Hispano-Suiza 9V
- crew
- 1
- length
- 9.5 m
- wingspan
- 11.8 m
- height
- 3.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,100 kg
- top speed
- 299 km/h
- cruise speed
- 200 km/h
- range
- 750 km
- ceiling
- 8,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1868333, Wikipedia: Loire 210 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.