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Pazmany PL-1

first flew 1962ยท two-seat trainer

Pazmany PL-1, photo 1 of 7
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what is it?

The Pazmany PL-1 Laminar and Pazmany PL-2 are American two-seat trainer and personal light aircraft designed by Ladislao Pazmany to be marketed as a homebuilt aircraft by his company Pazmany Aircraft Corporation. The aircraft was built under license in Taiwan (Republic of China) as the AIDC PL-1B Cheinshou. It was later followed by an improved version the PL-2.

How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller ยท 8.5 m wingspan

base stats

  • speed 245 km/htop speed
  • size 730 kgmax take-off weight

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 64 years ago, in 1962.
  • Top speed is 1.9ร— 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
1962
number built
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role
two-seat trainer
makers
Pazmany Aircraft Corporation
engines
1ร— Avco Lycoming O-320-E2A flat-four piston
crew
2
length
5.9 m
wingspan
8.5 m
height
2.3 m
max take-off weight
730 kg
top speed
245 km/h
range
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ceiling
4,570 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q700982, Wikipedia: Pazmany PL-1 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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