Seversky P-35

what is it?

The Seversky P-35 is an American fighter aircraft that was built by the Seversky Aircraft Company in the late 1930s. A contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, the P-35 was the first single-seat fighter in United States Army Air Corps service to feature all-metal construction, retractable landing gear, and an enclosed cockpit.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 467 km/htop speed
• size 3,050 kgmax take-off weight
• built 177made 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 91 years ago, in 1935.
• 🏎️Top speed is 3.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🏔️Can fly 1.1× 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

1935-08-15

introduced

1937

retired

1952

status

retired

number built

177

role

fighter

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

Republic Aviation Corporation

engines

1× Pratt & Whitney R-1830-45 Twin Wasp

length

8.2 m

wingspan

11 m

height

3 m

max take-off weight

3,050 kg

top speed

467 km/h

cruise speed

418 km/h

range

—

ceiling

9,571 m

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