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what is it?
The Boisavia B.60 Mercurey was a series of four-seat light aircraft developed in France shortly after World War II.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11.4 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 77 years ago, in 1949.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11.4 m: about 3 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
- 1949-04-03
- number built
- 46
- role
- civil utility aircraft
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- Société Boisavia
- engines
- 1× Lycoming O-320
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 3
- length
- 7.2 m
- wingspan
- 11.4 m
- height
- 2.2 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,277 kg
- top speed
- 235 km/h
- cruise speed
- 200 km/h
- range
- 1,200 km
- ceiling
- 5,500 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q194788, Wikipedia: Boisavia Mercurey (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.