what is it?
The PZL P.7 was a Polish gull wing monoplane fighter aircraft designed in the early 1930s at the PZL factory in Warsaw. It was the main fighter of the Polish Air Force between 1933 and 1935. The PZL P.7 was replaced in Polish service by its follow-up design, the PZL P.11c.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.3 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 96 years ago, in 1930.
- Top speed is 2.4× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.3 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
- 1930-10
- introduced
- 1932
- retired
- 1944
- status
- retired
- number built
- 149
- role
- fighter
- makers
- PZL
- engines
- 1× Polish Skoda Works Jupiter VIIF
- length
- 7.2 m
- wingspan
- 10.3 m
- height
- 2.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,409 kg
- top speed
- 317 km/h
- range
- 560 km
- ceiling
- 8,275 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q733571, Wikipedia: PZL P.7 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.