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what is it?
The Rogožarski IK-3 was a 1930s Yugoslav monoplane single-seat fighter, designed by Ljubomir Ilić, Kosta Sivčev and Slobodan Zrnić as a successor to the Ikarus IK-2 fighter. Its armament consisted of a hub-firing 20 mm (0.79 in) autocannon and two fuselage-mounted synchronised machine guns. It was considered comparable to foreign aircraft such as the Messerschmitt Bf 109E and came into service in 1940.
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 88 years ago, in 1938.
- Top speed is 4.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10.3 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
- 1938-05
- introduced
- 1939
- retired
- 1941
- status
- retired
- number built
- 12
- role
- fighter
- makers
- Rogožarski
- engines
- 1× Avia-built Hispano-Suiza 12Ycrs
- crew
- 1
- length
- 8 m
- wingspan
- 10.3 m
- height
- 3.3 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,630 kg
- top speed
- 527 km/h
- cruise speed
- 400 km/h
- range
- 785 km
- ceiling
- 9,400 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1545720, Wikipedia: Rogožarski IK-3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.