🎖️ military retired
what is it?
The SET 3 was a military trainer aircraft developed in Romania in the late 1920s. It was a conventional single-bay biplane with unstaggered wings of equal span. It was equipped with fixed tailskid undercarriage, and the pilot and instructor sat in tandem, open cockpits.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 9.8 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 98 years ago, in 1928.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 9.8 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1928
- introduced
- 1929
- retired
- 1941
- status
- retired
- number built
- 30
- role
- trainer aircraft
- origin
- 🇷🇴 Romania
- makers
- Societatea Pentru Exploatări Tehnice
- engines
- 1× Salmson 9Ab
- length
- 7.2 m
- wingspan
- 9.8 m
- height
- 3.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,120 kg
- top speed
- 215 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 6,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q3811833, Wikipedia: SET 3 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.