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what is it?
The SIPA S.200 Minijet was a light sporting jet aircraft designed and produced by the French aircraft manufacturer Société Industrielle Pour l’Aéronautique (SIPA). It is designed to perform liaison, training, and aerobatic flights. The Minijet was claimed to be the first jet-powered light touring aircraft The Minijet is a compact aircraft with an unusual twin boom configuration, a twin-seat cabin, and powered by a single Turbomeca Palas turbojet engine.
How to recognise it: 1 jet engine · mid wing · retractable tricycle gear · 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 74 years ago, in 1952.
- Top speed is 3.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
jet: Gas turbine pushing air out the back (turbofan or turbojet): fast and high-flying.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1952-01-14
- number built
- 7
- role
- light sporting jet
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- Société Industrielle Pour l’Aéronautique
- engines
- 1× Turbomeca Palas
- crew
- 2
- length
- 5.2 m
- wingspan
- 8 m
- height
- 1.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 880 kg
- top speed
- 398 km/h
- cruise speed
- 358 km/h
- range
- 563 km
- ceiling
- 7,927 m
- wings
- mid wing
- landing gear
- retractable tricycle gear
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2206251, Wikipedia: SIPA S.200 Minijet (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.