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SAN Jodel D.140 Mousquetaire

🇫🇷 France ·first flew 1958· five-seat light touring monoplane

SAN Jodel D.140 Mousquetaire, photo 1 of 8
1/8 Arpingstone· Public domain

what is it?

The SAN Jodel D.140 Mousquetaire (Musketeer) is a French five-seat light touring monoplane based on the earlier Jodel D.117 and built by Société Aéronautique Normande (SAN) at Bernay.

How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10.2 m wingspan

base stats

  • speed 250 km/htop speed
  • range 1,200 kmwithout refuelling
  • seats 3passengers
  • size 1,200 kgmax take-off weight
  • built 243made in total

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 68 years ago, in 1958.
  • Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
  • Wingspan of 10.2 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Range of 1,200 km: 7× Amsterdam to Brussels.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight
1958
introduced
1958
number built
243
role
five-seat light touring monoplane
origin
🇫🇷 France
makers
Société Aeronautique Normande
engines
1× Lycoming O-360-A1A
crew
1
passengers
3
length
7.9 m
wingspan
10.2 m
height
2.2 m
max take-off weight
1,200 kg
top speed
250 km/h
cruise speed
220 km/h
range
1,200 km
ceiling
4,500 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q1691269, Wikipedia: SAN Jodel D.140 Mousquetaire (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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