Waco Custom Cabin series

what is it?

The Waco Custom Cabins were a series of up-market single-engined four-to-five-seat cabin sesquiplanes of the late 1930s produced by the Waco Aircraft Company of the United States. "Custom Cabin" was Waco's own description of the aircraft which despite minor differences, were all fabric-covered biplanes.

base stats

• speed 267 km/htop speed
• size 1,588 kgmax take-off weight
• built 350made 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 91 years ago, in 1935.
• 🏎️Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).

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

spec sheet

first flight

1935

introduced

1935

number built

350

role

four to five place cabin sesquiplane

origin

🇺🇸 United States

makers

Waco

engines

1× Jacobs L-5

length

8.1 m

height

2.6 m

max take-off weight

1,588 kg

top speed

267 km/h

cruise speed

241 km/h

range

—

ceiling

5,182 m

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