PZL P.24

what is it?

The PZL P.24 is a Polish fighter aircraft, built in the late 1930s by Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze. It was a much more advanced development of the PZL P.11, a Polish (gull) wing all-metal fighter designed by Zygmunt Puławski. While the PZL P.11 had been powered with a licence-built Bristol Mercury radial engine, the terms of this licence did not permit PZL to export the engine as well as placing restrictions upon any aircraft that were powered by it.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.7 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 410 km/htop speed
• range 700 kmwithout refuelling
• size 2,000 kgmax take-off weight
• built 199made 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 93 years ago, in 1933.
• 🏎️Top speed is 3.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 10.7 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.0× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1933-05

introduced

1937

retired

1960

status

retired

number built

199

role

fighter

makers

Industria Aeronautică Română, PZL

engines

1× Gnome-Rhône 14Kfs

crew

1

length

7.5 m

wingspan

10.7 m

height

2.7 m

max take-off weight

2,000 kg

top speed

410 km/h

range

700 km

ceiling

9,000 m

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