Potez 25

what is it?

The Potez 25 (also written as Potez XXV) was a French twin-seat, single-engine sesquiplane designed during the 1920s. A light multi-purpose fighter-bomber, it was designed as a line aircraft and used as a fighter and escort fighter, tactical bombing and reconnaissance missions. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Potez 25 was the standard multi-purpose aircraft of over 20 air forces, including French and Polish.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.1 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 230 km/htop speed
• size 2,494 kgmax take-off weight
• built 4,000made in total

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 102 years ago, in 1924.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 14.1 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

1924

introduced

1925

number built

4,000

role

military aircraft with 1 tractor-piston-propeller engine

origin

🇫🇷 France

makers

Potez

engines

1× Gnome & Rhône 9Ac / Lorraine 12E Courlis

crew

2

length

9.1 m

wingspan

14.1 m

height

3.7 m

max take-off weight

2,494 kg

top speed

230 km/h

range

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