what is it?
The Loring R-III or R-3 was a 1920s Spanish two-seat sesquiplane reconnaissance and light attack aircraft designed by engineer Eduardo Barrón and built by Dr. Jorge Loring's company, Talleres Loring.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.5 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 100 years ago, in 1926.
- Top speed is 1.8× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 14.5 m: about 3 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
- 1926
- number built
- 110
- role
- reconnaissance and light attack aircraft
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- makers
- Talleres Loring
- engines
- 1× Hispano-Suiza 12Hb
- crew
- 2
- length
- 9.7 m
- wingspan
- 14.5 m
- height
- 2.6 m
- max take-off weight
- 2,380 kg
- top speed
- 235 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 8,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6681274, Wikipedia: Loring R-III (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.