what is it?
The Miles M.16 Mentor was a 1930s British single-engined three-seat monoplane training and communications aircraft built by Miles Aircraft Limited.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.6 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 88 years ago, in 1938.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.6 m: about 2 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
- 1938-01-05
- introduced
- 1938
- retired
- 1950
- status
- retired
- number built
- 45
- role
- training and communications
- makers
- Miles Aircraft
- engines
- 1× de Havilland Gipsy Six
- crew
- 2
- length
- 8 m
- wingspan
- 10.6 m
- height
- 3 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,229 kg
- top speed
- 251 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 4,206 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q473410, Wikipedia: Miles Mentor (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.