#0752
Seversky SEV-3
🇺🇸 United States ·first flew 1933· three-seat amphibian
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Seversky P-35 Photo of a SEV-3XAR (X-2106) in land plane configuration (16310667606): San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives· Public domain
- 2. Seversky P-35 Photo of the original SEV-3XAR (X-2106) in sea plane configuration (15714183294): San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives· Public domain
- 3. Seversky P-35 The original SEV-3XAR (X-2106) in flight (16335731922): San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives· Public domain
- 4. Seversky P-35 The SEV-3 was the first airplane built by Seversky Aircraft Corporation, which in 1939 became Republic Aviation Corporation. Only one Seversky 3 was manufactured, by Seversky employees (16150721097): San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives· Public domain
what is it?
The Seversky SEV-3 was an American three-seat amphibian monoplane, the first aircraft designed and built by the Seversky Aircraft Corporation.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 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 93 years ago, in 1933.
- Top speed is 2.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1933
- number built
- 31
- role
- three-seat amphibian
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- makers
- Republic Aviation Corporation
- engines
- 1× Pratt & Whitney R-985-11 Wasp Junior
- crew
- 2
- length
- 7.4 m
- wingspan
- 11 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,841 kg
- top speed
- 282 km/h
- range
- —
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7458008, Wikipedia: Seversky SEV-3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.