2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Soko 522 01: No machine-readable author provided. Marko M~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Soko 522 Gospođinci: BokicaK· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Soko 522 was a two-seater Yugoslav military training and light attack aircraft produced in the 1950s by SOKO in Yugoslavia.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11 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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- Top speed is 2.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1955-02
- introduced
- 1955
- retired
- 1978
- status
- retired
- number built
- 110
- role
- training and light attack aircraft
- makers
- SOKO
- engines
- 1× Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN-1 Wasp
- crew
- 2
- length
- 9.2 m
- wingspan
- 11 m
- height
- 3.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,089 kg
- top speed
- 351 km/h
- range
- 978 km
- ceiling
- 7,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1481700, Wikipedia: Soko 522 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.