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what is it?
The Praga E.114 was a single-engine sport airplane, designed and manufactured by the Czechoslovak company ČKD-Praga. Due to its light weight it was also called Air Baby.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11 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 92 years ago, in 1934.
- Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 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
- 1934
- introduced
- 1935
- number built
- 275
- role
- light private owner aircraft
- engines
- 1× Praga B-2
- length
- 6.6 m
- wingspan
- 11 m
- height
- 2.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 555 kg
- top speed
- 150 km/h
- cruise speed
- 135 km/h
- range
- 450 km
- ceiling
- 3,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q441942, Wikipedia: Praga E.114 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.