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In 1952, stunt pilot and aircraft designer Ray Stits built the Stits SA-2A Sky Baby, aiming to create the world’s smallest fully functional airplane. The biplane measured just 9 feet 10 inches long with an 7-foot 2-inch wingspan and weighed only 452 pounds empty. Powered by a 65-hp Continental engine, it reached 150 mph yet needed only 200 feet to take off.
Stits himself flew the tiny
craft successfully several times, proving nimble handling despite its diminutive
size. Recognized by Guinness as the smallest aircraft from 1952 until 1984
(when his son built an even smaller one), the Sky Baby remains an iconic
testament to bold aviation ingenuity.
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