Waco F series

what is it?

The Waco F series is a series of American-built general aviation and military biplane trainers of the 1930s from the Waco Aircraft Company.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.1 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 206 km/htop speed
• seats 1passengers
• size 1,202 kgmax take-off weight

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

• 🏎️Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 9.1 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

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introduced

1930

status

in production

number built

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role

open-cockpit biplane

origin

🇺🇸 United States

engines

1× Continental W-670-6A seven cylinder radial

crew

1

passengers

1

length

7 m

wingspan

9.1 m

height

2.6 m

max take-off weight

1,202 kg

top speed

206 km/h

cruise speed

183 km/h

range

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ceiling

4,511 m

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