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what is it?
The Zenair Tri-Z CH 300 is a three-seat Canadian homebuilt light aircraft. A single-engined low-winged monoplane, the CH 300 first flew in 1977, with several hundred kits sold.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 8.1 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 49 years ago, in 1977.
- Top speed is 2.0× 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
- 1977
- number built
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- role
- homebuilt light aircraft
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- makers
- Zenair
- engines
- 1× Lycoming O-320
- crew
- 1
- passengers
- 2
- length
- 6.9 m
- wingspan
- 8.1 m
- height
- 2.1 m
- max take-off weight
- 839 kg
- top speed
- 257 km/h
- cruise speed
- 230 km/h
- range
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Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q8069003, Wikipedia: Zenair CH 300 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.