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what is it?
The PZL-106 Kruk (English: Raven) is a Polish agricultural aircraft designed and built by WSK PZL Warszawa-Okęcie (later PZL "Warszawa-Okęcie" and now EADS-PZL).
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.9 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 53 years ago, in 1973.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 14.9 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
- 1973
- status
- in production
- number built
- 266
- role
- agricultural aircraft
- origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- makers
- PZL
- engines
- 1× PZL-3SR
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 1
- length
- 9.3 m
- wingspan
- 14.9 m
- height
- 3.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 3,000 kg
- top speed
- 215 km/h
- range
- 900 km
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q466146, Wikipedia: PZL-106 Kruk (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.