This article lists fixed-wing aircraft with a stall speed of or less, and certain other aircraft. It does not list helicopters or vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Fixed-wing aircraft are limited by their stall speed, the slowest airspeed at which they can maintain level flight. This depends on weight, however an aircraft will typically have a published stall speed at maximum takeoff weight.
Short take-off and landing aircraft typically have a low stall speed.
The MacCready Gossamer Condor is a human-powered aircraft capable of flight as slow as . Its successor, the MacCready Gossamer Albatross can fly as slow as .[1] It has a maximum speed of .[2]
The Ruppert Archaeopteryx has a certified stall speed of .[3]
The Vought XF5U can fly as slow as .[4]
The Tapanee Pegazair-100 stall speed is .
The Zenith STOL CH 701 and ICP Savannah both have stall speeds of .
The Slepcev Storch has a stall speed of . It is a 3/4 scale replica of the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, which had a stall speed of .
The British Auster WW2 reconnaissance aircraft had a placarded stall speed of,[5] but that was merely the speed at which its control surfaces lost authority. As reported in many personal accounts by the pilots in their memoirs, the speed at which the aircraft would actually stall was . Either speed making it the slowest aircraft used in WW2 and possibly the slowest conventional warplane of all time.[6]
The Antonov An-2 had no published stall speed. At low speeds its elevator cannot generate enough downforce to exceed the stalling angle of attack. In practice it could maintain approximately without descending.[7]
The slowest jet-powered aircraft is the PZL M-15 Belphegor, with a stall speed of [8]