#0869
Seversky A8V
🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1935· fighter
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Seversky A8V1 J-BAAN “Shiokaze-go” of Asahi Shimbun: Unknown author Unknown author· CC0
what is it?
The A8V1 Type S Two Seat Fighter was an aircraft developed in the United States in the 1930s by Seversky Aircraft, purchased and operated in small numbers by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service.
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 91 years ago, in 1935.
- Top speed is 3.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 3,138 km: 17× Amsterdam to Brussels.
- 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
- 1935
- introduced
- 1937
- retired
- 1952
- status
- retired
- number built
- 70
- role
- fighter
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Republic Aviation Corporation
- engines
- 1× Wright R-1820 Cyclone
- length
- 8.2 m
- wingspan
- 11 m
- height
- 3 m
- max take-off weight
- 3,474 kg
- top speed
- 508 km/h
- range
- 3,138 km
- ceiling
- 9,144 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4049331, Wikipedia: Seversky A8V (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.