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- 1. Potez XV L'Aéronautique December,1922: L'Aéronautique magazine· Public domain
what is it?
The Potez XV (also erroneously written Potez 15) was a French single-engine, two-seat observation biplane designed as a private venture by Louis Coroller and built by Potez and under licence by Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów and Plage i Laśkiewicz in Poland.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 12.7 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 105 years ago, in 1921.
- Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12.7 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
- 1921-10
- introduced
- 1923
- number built
- 545
- role
- reconnaissance bomber
- makers
- Potez
- engines
- 1× Lorraine-Dietrich 12Db
- crew
- 2
- length
- 8.7 m
- wingspan
- 12.7 m
- height
- 3.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,950 kg
- top speed
- 202 km/h
- range
- 510 km
- ceiling
- 4,200 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3075690, Wikipedia: Potez XV (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.