what is it?
The Wassmer WA-40 Super 4 Sancy is a French single-engined light aircraft of the 1960s and 70s. A single-engined low-winged monoplane with retractable nosewheel undercarriage, variants include the more powerful WA 4/21 Prestige and the WA-41 Baladou with a fixed undercarriage.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10 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 67 years ago, in 1959.
- Top speed is 2.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 10 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,700 km: 9× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1959-06-08
- number built
- —
- role
- light aircraft
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- makers
- Wassmer
- engines
- 1× Lycoming O-360-A1A
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 4
- length
- 8.1 m
- wingspan
- 10 m
- height
- 2.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,200 kg
- top speed
- 270 km/h
- cruise speed
- 225 km/h
- range
- 1,700 km
- ceiling
- 5,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q7972781, Wikipedia: Wassmer WA-40 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.