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- 1. Nardi FN.315 photo L'Aerophile June 1939: L'Aerophile magazine· Public domain
what is it?
The Nardi FN.315 was an Italian training monoplane developed from the earlier Nardi FN.305 and produced by the Fratelli Nardi company.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.5 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 2.4× 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
- 1938-07-10
- number built
- 31
- role
- training monoplane
- makers
- Fratelli Nardi
- engines
- 1× Alfa Romeo 115-1 inline piston engine / Argus As 10 / Hirth HM 508 / Alfa Romeo 115-1
- crew
- 2
- length
- 7 m
- wingspan
- 8.5 m
- height
- 2.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,045 kg
- top speed
- 315 km/h
- range
- 620 km
- ceiling
- 6,000 m
- wings
- monoplane
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q10797305, Wikipedia: Nardi FN.315 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.