Fastest airplanes

Fastest airplanes ranked by speed.

Last updated . Source: Wikidata.

As of 2026-07-08, Beneš-Mráz Be-56 Beta-Major tops the list with 240 km/h.

  1. #1 Beneš-Mráz Be-56 Beta-Major — 240 km/h

    1930s Czech aircraft

    The Beneš-Mráz Be-56 Beta-Major was a single-seat aerobatic advanced trainer manufactured in Czechoslovakia shortly before World War II. Read more on Wikipedia.

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  2. #2 Mráz Sokol — 240 km/h

    1940s Czechoslovakian light aircraft

    The Mráz M.1 Sokol was a light aircraft built in Czechoslovakia in the years following the end of the Second World War. Designed in secret by Zdeněk Rublič at the Beneš-Mráz factory during the German occupation, the type was put into production in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia.

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  3. #3 Beneš-Mráz Be-52 — 235 km/h source Wikidata
  4. #4 Göppingen Gö 9 — 220 km/h

    German research aircraft, 1941

    The Göppingen Gö 9 was a German experimental aircraft built to investigate the practicalities of powering a plane using a pusher propeller located far from the engine and turned by a long driveshaft. Read more on Wikipedia.

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  5. #5 Guritzer van Nes A.III — 160 km/h source Wikidata
  6. #6 LFG V 40 — 150 km/h

    1920s German sports aircraft

    The LFG V 40 and V 44 were one-off, single-engine, two-seat sports monoplanes, identical apart from their engines, built in Germany in 1925. Read more on Wikipedia.

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  7. #7 Hopfner HS-5/28 — 148 km/h

    type of aircraft

    The Hopfner HS-5/28 was a utility aircraft built in Austria in the late 1920s. It was a conventional, parasol-wing monoplane with seating for two occupants in tandem, open cockpits. The landing gear was of fixed, tailskid type with divided main units. Two examples were built with Walter NZ60 engines, followed by two more with the more powerful NZ85 for Swiss aeroclub use. One of these latter machines remained in service until 1934. Read more on Wikipedia.

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  8. #8 Entler E.II — 130 km/h

    German sportsplane

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  9. #9 LFG V 58 — 130 km/h

    1920s German aircraft

    The LFG V 58 was a light sport aircraft built in Germany in the late 1920s. Read more on Wikipedia.

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  10. #10 Caspar C 17 — 125 km/h

    type of aircraft

    The Caspar C 17 was a mid-1920s German, low power, two seat ultralight aircraft with a cantilever wing of unusually high aspect ratio, flexibly attached to the fuselage to moderate gust effects. Read more on Wikipedia.

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