what is it?
The SET 7 was a military trainer & reconnaissance aircraft that was produced in Romania in the mid-1930s. It was originally designed as a conventional single-bay biplane, with slightly staggered wings, a standard undercarriage with fixed tailskid, and a tandem open-cockpit arrangement for the pilot and instructor or observer. Power was supplied by an Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar radial engine, and, from the outset, the aircraft was equipped for wireless & photographic reconnaissance duties.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · biplane
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 95 years ago, in 1931.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1931
- introduced
- 1930
- number built
- 123
- role
- trainer and reconnaissance aircraft
- makers
- Societatea Pentru Exploatări Tehnice
- engines
- 1× IAR-built Gnome-Rhône 7Ksf / Gnome-Rhône 7K Titan Major
- crew
- 2
- length
- 7.2 m
- height
- 3.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,560 kg
- top speed
- 251 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 6,800 m
- wings
- biplane
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7389893, Wikipedia: SET 7 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.