what is it?
The SIPA S.90 was a French-built two-seat light touring and training aircraft of the 1940s and 1950s.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.7 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 79 years ago, in 1947.
- Top speed is 1.7× 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
- 1947
- introduced
- 1948
- number built
- 113
- role
- personal and trainer aircraft
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- Société Industrielle Pour l’Aéronautique
- engines
- 1× Continental C85-12F
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 1
- length
- 5.7 m
- wingspan
- 8.7 m
- height
- 1.8 m
- max take-off weight
- 600 kg
- top speed
- 217 km/h
- cruise speed
- 194 km/h
- range
- 510 km
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1572374, Wikipedia: SIPA S.90 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.