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what is it?
The Stinson Junior was a high-winged American monoplane of the late 1920s, built for private owners, and was one of the first such designs to feature a fully enclosed cabin.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 12.7 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 98 years ago, in 1928.
- Top speed is 1.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12.7 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1928
- number built
- 321
- role
- three/four-seat private civil aircraft
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- engines
- 1× Wright Whirlwind J6-7 nine-cylinder radial air-cooled
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 3
- length
- 8.8 m
- wingspan
- 12.7 m
- height
- 2.5 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,465 kg
- top speed
- 217 km/h
- cruise speed
- 182 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 6,706 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7617475, Wikipedia: Stinson Junior (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.