what is it?
The Pazmany PL-4A is a single-seat, single-engine sport aircraft developed in the United States and first flown in 1972. It is marketed for homebuilding from plans, and 686 sets had sold by 1985. The PL-4A is a conventional, low-wing cantilever monoplane with an enclosed cabin and fixed, tailwheel undercarriage.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 8.1 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 54 years ago, in 1972.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1972-07-12
- number built
- 50
- role
- amateur-built aircraft
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Pazmany Aircraft Corporation
- engines
- 1× Converted Volkswagen air-cooled engine
- length
- 5 m
- wingspan
- 8.1 m
- height
- 1.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 385 kg
- top speed
- 201 km/h
- range
- 545 km
- ceiling
- 3,960 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1428594, Wikipedia: Pazmany PL-4 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.