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Albatros
Albatros Flugzeugwerke
Albatros-Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer best known for supplying the German airforces during World War I.The company was based in Johannisthal, Berlin, where it was founded by Walter Huth and Otto Wiener on December 20, 1909. It produced some of the most capable fighter aircraft...

  • Albatros Al 101
    Albatros Al 101
    |-See also:-References:*...

    , 'L 101', two-seat sportsplane + trainer, 1930
  • Albatros Al 102, 'L 102', two-seat sportsplane + trainer, 1931
  • Albatros Al 103, 'L 103', two-seat sportsplane + trainer, 1932

Arado
Arado Flugzeugwerke
Arado Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer, originally established as the Warnemünde factory of the Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen firm, that produced military hydroplanes during the First World War.-History:...

  • Arado Ar 64
    Arado Ar 64
    |-See also:-References:* Green, William, and Gordon Swanborough, The Complete Book of Fighters ...

    , fighter (biplane)
  • Arado Ar 65
    Arado Ar 65
    -See also:-References:* Green, William, and Gordon Swanborough, The Complete Book of Fighters...

    , fighter/trainer (biplane - re-engined Ar 64)
  • Arado Ar 66
    Arado Ar 66
    -See also:-References:* Smith, J.R and Kay, Antony L. German Aircraft of the Second World War. London: Putnam, 1972. ISBN 0-85177-836-4.-External links:*...

    , trainer + night fighter
  • Arado Ar 67
    Arado Ar 67
    |-See also:-References:* Green, William, and Gordon Swanborough, The Complete Book of Fighters...

    , fighter (biplane) (prototype)
  • Arado Ar 68, fighter (biplane)
  • Arado Ar 69
    Arado Ar 69
    The Arado Ar 69 was a two-seat German beginners school and sport biplane with an open cockpit, developed in 1933 by Arado Flugzeugwerke. Powered by a Siemens & Halske 14A engine, the aircraft featured swept wings constructed from wood and a steel tube frame hull....

    , trainer (biplane) (prototypes), 1933
  • Arado Ar 76
    Arado Ar 76
    |-See also:-References:* World Aircraft Information Files. Brightstar Aerospace Publishing, London. File 889 Sheet 69....

    , fighter (biplane) + trainer
  • Arado Ar 80
    Arado Ar 80
    The Arado Ar 80 was a pre-World War II fighter aircraft, designed by Arado Flugzeugwerke to compete for the Luftwaffes first major fighter contract. The Ar 80 was uninspiring in terms of performance and also suffered a number of failures...

    , fighter (prototype)
  • Arado Ar 81
    Arado Ar 81
    |-References:...

    , two-seat biplane (prototype)(1936)
  • Arado Ar 95
    Arado Ar 95
    -See also:...

    , coastal patrol + attack (biplane seaplane)
  • Arado Ar 96
    Arado Ar 96
    -See also:-Bibliography:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd., 1970 . ISBN 0-356-02382-6....

    , trainer
  • Arado Ar 196
    Arado Ar 196
    -See also:-Bibliography:* Dabrowski, Hans-Peter and Koos, Volker. Arado Ar 196, Germany's Multi-Purpose Seaplane. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1993. ISBN 0-88740-481-2....

    , ship-borne reconnaissance + coastal patrol (seaplane)
  • Arado Ar 197
    Arado Ar 197
    -See also:-References:* Kay, Anthony L. and Smith, J. Richard. German Aircraft of the Second World War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. ISBN 978-1-55750-010-6....

    , naval fighter (biplane - derived from Ar 68)
  • Arado Ar 198
    Arado Ar 198
    The Arado Ar 198 was a prototype reconnaissance aircraft developed by Arado Flugzeugwerke, with backing from the Luftwaffe, who initially preferred it over the Blohm & Voss BV 141 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 189. However, when flight tests were carried out the aircraft performed poorly, and did not...

    , reconnaissance
  • Arado Ar 199, seaplane trainer
  • Arado Ar 231
    Arado Ar 231
    The Arado Ar 231 was a light-weight Floatplane, developed during World War II in Germany as a scout plane for submarines. The need to be stored inside the submarine necessitated compromises in design that made this single-seat seaplane of little practical use....

    , fold-wing U-boat reconnaissance aircraft (prototype)
  • Arado Ar 232
    Arado Ar 232
    The Arado Ar 232 Tausendfüssler was the first truly modern cargo aircraft, designed and built in small numbers by the German firm Arado Flugzeugwerke during World War II...

    , transport
  • Arado Ar 233
    Arado Ar 233
    -See also:...

    , seaplane(concept), 1940
  • Arado Ar 234
    Arado Ar 234
    The Arado Ar 234 was the world's first operational jet-powered bomber, built by the German Arado company in the closing stages of World War II. Produced in very limited numbers, it was used almost entirely in the reconnaissance role, but in its few uses as a bomber it proved to be nearly impossible...

     Blitz ('Lightning'), bomber (jet-engined)
  • Arado Ar 240
    Arado Ar 240
    The Arado Ar 240 was a German twin-engine multi-role heavy fighter aircraft developed for the Luftwaffe during World War II by Arado Flugzeugwerke. Its first flight was in 1940, but problems with the design hampered development and it remained only marginally stable through the prototype phase...

    , heavy fighter + attack
  • Arado Ar 396, trainer
  • Arado Ar 440, heavy fighter + attack
  • Arado Ar 532, cancelled transport

Blohm & Voss
Blohm + Voss
Blohm + Voss , is a German shipbuilding and engineering works. It is a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems; there were plans to sell 80% of Blohm + Voss to Abu Dhabi Mar Group, but talks collapsed in July 2011.-History:It was founded on April 5, 1877, by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss as a...

  • Blohm & Voss BV 40, glider interceptor
  • Blohm & Voss BV 138, flying-boat (early versions designated as Ha 138)
  • Blohm & Voss Ha 139, long-range seaplane
  • Blohm & Voss Ha 140
    Blohm & Voss Ha 140
    |-See also:-Bibliography:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd., 4th impression 1979, p. 70-71. ISBN 0-356-02382-6.* Schneider, H. Flugzeug-Typenbuch. Herm. Beyer Verlag, Leipzig, 1940...

    , torpedo bomber flying-boat (prototype)
  • Blohm & Voss BV 141, reconnaissance (asymmetric)
  • Blohm & Voss BV 142, reconnaissance + transport
  • Blohm & Voss BV 143
    Blohm & Voss BV 143
    The Blohm & Voss BV 143 was an early prototype rocket-assisted glide bomb developed by the German Luftwaffe during World War II.-Design:By 1941, Allied merchant ships were slow and easy targets for German coastal bombers, but were proving increasingly well-equipped with anti-aircraft artillery,...

    , glide bomb (prototype)
  • Blohm & Voss BV 144
    Blohm & Voss BV 144
    -See also:-External links:*http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/bv144.html...

    , transport
  • Blohm & Voss BV 155, high-altitude interceptor (formerly Me 155)
  • Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking (Viking), transport flying-boat
  • Blohm & Voss BV 238, flying-boat (prototype
  • Blohm & Voss BV 246 Hagelkorn (Hailstone), long-range radar-homing glide bomb

Bücker
Bucker
Bucker may refer to:* Bücker Flugzeugbau*George Bucker, also known as Adam Damlip, Protestant martyr...

  • Bücker Bü 131
    Bücker Bü 131
    |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Bridgeman, Leonard. “The Bücker Bü 131B “Jungmann”.” Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London: Studio, 1946. ISBN 1-85170-493-0....

     Jungmann (Young Man), trainer (biplane)
  • Bücker Bü 133
    Bücker Bü 133
    |-See also:-Bibliography:* König, Erwin. Bücker Bü 133 "Jungmeister" . D-86669 Stengelheim, Germany: Unitec Medienvertrieb e.K.,...

     Jungmeister (Young Champion), trainer + aerobatics (biplane)
  • Bücker Bü 180
    Bücker Bü 180
    |-See also:-Bibliography:* Donald, David . The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Leicester, UK:Blitz, 1997. ISBN 1-85605-375-X.* König, Erwin. Bücker Bü 180 "Student", Bü 182 "Kornett", Bü 134: Drei geniale Flugzeugtypen, die dem Krieg zum Opfer fielen . D-86669 Stengelheim, Germany: Unitec...

     Student (Student), trainer
  • Bücker Bü 181
    Bücker Bü 181
    |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Donald, David and Lake, Jon. . Encyclopedia of World Military Aircraft. London: Aerospace Publishing, Single volume edition, 1996. ISBN 1-874023-95-6....

     Bestmann (Bestman), trainer + transport
  • Bücker Bü 182
    Bücker Bü 182
    -References:NotesBibliography* König, Erwin. Bücker Bü 180 "Student", Bü 182 "Kornett", Bü 134: Drei geniale Flugzeugtypen, die dem Krieg zum Opfer fielen . D-86669 Stengelheim, Germany: Unitec Medienvertrieb e.K.,...

     Kornett (Ensign), trainer

Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug
Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug
The Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug, or DFS was formed in 1933 to centralise all gliding activity in Germany...

 (DFS)

  • DFS 6, may be 'Model 6' or 'DFS B6'
  • DFS 39, Lippisch-designed tail-less research aircraft
  • DFS 40
    DFS 40
    The DFS 40 was a tail-less research aircraft designed by Alexander Lippisch in 1937 as a follow-on to his Delta IV aircraft...

    , Lippisch-designed tail-less research aircraft
  • DFS 194, rocket-powered research aircraft, forerunner of Me 163
  • DFS 228
    DFS 228
    -See also:-Bibliography:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd., 1970 . ISBN 0-356-02382-6.* Myhra, David. DFS 228. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-76431-203-0....

    , rocket-powered reconnaissance aircraft (prototype only)
  • DFS 230
    DFS 230
    |-See also:-External links:* http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/dfs230.html* http://www.luftarchiv.de/flugzeuge/dfs/dfs230.htm...

    , transport glider
  • DFS 331
    DFS 331
    |-See also:...

    , transport glider (prototype)
  • DFS 332
    DFS 332
    -References:* Vom Höhenaufklärer bis zum Raumgleiter 1935-1945 - Geheimprojekte der DFS, Horst Lommel, Motorbuch Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3-613-02072-6...

  • DFS 346
    DFS 346
    The DFS 346 was a German rocket-powered swept-wing vehicle subsequently completed and flown in the Soviet Union after the World War II. It was designed by Felix Kracht at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug , the "German Institute for Sailplane Flight"...

    , supersonic research aircraft (incomplete prototype only)

Dornier

  • Dornier Do 10
    Dornier Do 10
    The Dornier Do 10 was the name given by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium of a pre-World War II German aircraft. The aircraft has a complicated history due to renaming and the use of three different engines with correspondingly different specifications....

    , (Do C1) fighter (prototype), 1931
  • Dornier Do 11, (Do F) medium bomber, 1931
  • Dornier Do 12
    Dornier Do 12
    |-See also:...

    , Libelle III(Dragonfly III), seaplane, 1932
  • Dornier Do 13
    Dornier Do 13
    The Dornier Do 13 was a short-lived 1930s German bomber design. It was the designation given to the aircraft resulting from attempts to improve on the Do 11. However, only a few were made, because the design changes caused grievous problems with many of the first flights ending in crashes...

    , medium bomber, (Development of Do 11), 1933
  • Dornier Do 14
    Dornier Do 14
    The Dornier Do 14 was a prototype seaplane developed by Dornier Flugzeugwerke with backing from the Luftwaffe for experimental propulsion studies. The aircraft was similar to the Dornier Do 12....

    , seaplane (prototype)
  • Dornier Do 15, prototype for a passenger plane and bomber (Do Y)
  • Dornier Do 16, Wal (Whale), reconnaissance flying-boat
  • Dornier Do 17
    Dornier Do 17
    The Dornier Do 17, sometimes referred to as the Fliegender Bleistift , was a World War II German light bomber produced by Claudius Dornier's company, Dornier Flugzeugwerke...

    , Flying Pencil; mail-plane, bomber, reconnaissance, night-fighter
  • Dornier Do 18
    Dornier Do 18
    The Dornier Do 18 was a development of the Do 16 flying boat. It was developed for the Luftwaffe, but Lufthansa got 5 aircraft and used these for tests between the Azores and the North American continent in 1936 and on their mail route over the South Atlantic from 1937 to 1939.27–29 March 1938 a...

    , bomber + reconnaissance flying-boat, 1935
  • Dornier Do 19, four-engined Ural bomber
    Ural bomber
    The Ural bomber was a program to develop a long-range bomber for the Luftwaffe, created and led by General Walther Wever in the early 1930s. Wever died in an air crash in 1936 and the program ended almost immediately...

     heavy bomber contender (prototype)
  • Dornier Do 22
    Dornier Do 22
    |-See also:-References:*Donald, David The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Leicester,UK:Blitz Editions. ISBN 1-85605-375-X.*Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War: Volume Six Floatplanes. London:Macdonald, 1962....

    , torpedo bomber + reconnaissance flying-boat
  • Dornier Do 23
    Dornier Do 23
    -See also:-References:NotesBibliography*Donald, David . The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Aerospace Publishing. 1997. ISBN 1-85605-375-X....

    , medium bomber, (development of (Do 13/11)
  • Dornier Do 26
    Dornier Do 26
    The Dornier Do 26 was an all-metal gull winged flying boat produced before and during World War II by Dornier Flugzeugwerke of Germany.It was operated by a crew of four and was intended to carry a payload of 500 kg or four passengers on the Lisbon to New York route.-Design and development:The...

    , long-range seaplane
  • Dornier Do 214
    Dornier Do 214
    -See also:-References:*D. Herwig & H. Rode Luftwaffe Secret Projects - Strategic Bombers 1935-45. ISBN 1-85780-092-3...

    , transport flying-boat (prototype)
  • Dornier Do 215
    Dornier Do 215
    |-See also:-Bibliography:* Dressel, Joachim and Manfred Griehl. Bombers of the Luftwaffe. London: DAG Publications, 1994. ISBN 1-85409-140-9....

    , bomber, night-fighter
  • Dornier Do 217
    Dornier Do 217
    The Dornier Do 217 was a bomber used by German Luftwaffe during World War II as a more powerful version of the Dornier Do 17, known as the Fliegender Bleistift . Designed in 1937 and 1938 as a heavy bomber, its design was refined during 1939 and production began in late 1940...

    , bomber, night-fighter
  • Dornier Do 317
    Dornier Do 317
    -Do 317B:-See also:-References:*Griehl, M. Dornier Do 217-317-417: an Operation History. Airlife, 1991.*Green, W. Warplanes of the Third Reich. Galahad Books, 1986....

    , Bomber B
    Bomber B
    Bomber B was a German military aircraft design competition dating to just before the start of World War II to develop a second-generation high-speed bomber that would both be a direct successor to the Schnellbomber design philosophy, and to replace all medium and heavy bombers then in service with...

     design competitor
  • Dornier Do 335
    Dornier Do 335
    The Dornier Do 335 Pfeil was a World War II heavy fighter built by the Dornier company. The two-seater trainer version was also called Ameisenbär . The Pfeils performance was much better than other twin-engine designs due to its unique "push-pull" layout and the much lower drag of the in-line...

     Pfeil (Arrow), fighter-bomber (push-pull engine configuration)
  • Dornier Do 435
  • Dornier Do 635
    Dornier Do 635
    |-See also:-External links:*...


Fieseler
Fieseler
The Gerhard Fieseler Werke was a German aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s and 40s. The company is remembered mostly for its military aircraft built for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.-History:...

 Fieseler Flugzeugbau

  • Fieseler Fi 2
    Fieseler Fi 2
    The Fieseler Fi 2, better known as the F2 Tiger , was a German aerobatic biplane which was flown to victory in the 1934 World Aerobatics Competition by the German aerobatics star, Gerhard Fieseler. Fieseler was a World War I German fighter ace with almost 20 kills to his credit...

     (F2 Tiger, acrobatic sportsplane, 1932
  • Fieseler Fi 5
    Fieseler Fi 5
    -See also:-References:* . Flight, 2 November 1933, p. 1100....

     (F-5) acrobatic sportsplane + trainer, 1933
  • Fieseler Fi 97
    Fieseler Fi 97
    |-References:* The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft , 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1812/3* -External links:*...

    , four-seat cabin touring monoplane
  • Fieseler Fi 98
    Fieseler Fi 98
    -See also:-References:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York: Doubleday, 1972. ISBN 0-385-05782-2.* Herwig, D and H. Rode,Luftwaffe Secret Projects - Ground Attack & Special Purpose Aircraft, ISBN 1-85780-150-4....

    , biplane fighter, 1936
  • Fieseler Fi 103 (Vergeltungswaffe 1), flying bomb
  • Fieseler Fi 156
    Fieseler Fi 156
    The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch was a small German liaison aircraft built by Fieseler before and during World War II, and production continued in other countries into the 1950s for the private market...

     Storch (Stork), STOL reconnaissance aircraft
  • Fieseler Fi 167
    Fieseler Fi 167
    |-See also:*Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia-References:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York: Doubleday, 1972. ISBN 0-385-05782-2....

    , ship-borne torpedo bomber + reconnaissance (biplane)
  • Fieseler Fi 333
    Fieseler Fi 333
    The Fieseler Fi 333 was a prototype transport aircraft developed by Fieseler, and backed by the Luftwaffe. The aircraft was to utilise detachable pods of varying sizes to carry cargo, a system that would allow a rapid turnaround on the ground...

     transport (concept)

Flettner
Flettner
Anton Flettner, Flugzeugbau GmbH was a German helicopter and autogyro manufacturer during World War II, founded by Anton Flettner.Flettner aircraft included:*Flettner Fl 184 reconnaissance autogyro, prototype...

  • Flettner Fl 184
    Flettner Fl 184
    The Flettner 184 was a German night reconnaissance and anti-submarine autogyro developed during the 1930s.- Design :Its designer, Anton Flettner, designed the Fl 184 to have a single, torqueless rotor. This was done with two 30 hp engines that drove small propellers attached to the rotor...

     reconnaissance helicopter, prototype
  • Flettner Fl 185
    Flettner Fl 185
    The Flettner Fl 185 was an experimental German helicopter developed by Anton Flettner.This helicopter was developed in 1936 with support of the German Navy. It was powered by a BMW-Bramo Sh 14 A radial piston engine with forced-air cooling, mounted at the nose...

     reconnaissance helicopter, prototype
  • Flettner Fl 265
    Flettner Fl 265
    -References: Nowarra, Heinz J.: Die Deutsche Luftrüstung 1933-1945, Bernard & Graeffe Verlag, Koblenz 1993, ISBN 3-7637-5464-4-External links:*...

     reconnaissance helicopter, prototype
  • Flettner Fl 282
    Flettner Fl 282
    |- References :NotesBibliography* Coates, Steve and Jean-Christophe Carbonel. Helicopters of the Third Reich. Crowborough, UK: Classic Publications Ltd., 2002. ISBN 1-903223-24-5....

     Kolibri (Hummingbird), reconnaissance helicopter
  • Flettner Fl 339 reconnaissance helicopter, project


Focke Achgelis

  • Focke Achgelis Fa 223 Drache (Kite), transport helicopter (prototype
  • Focke Achgelis Fa 266 Hornisse (Hornet), helicopter (prototype)
  • Focke Achgelis Fa 330
    Focke Achgelis Fa 330
    The Focke-Achgelis FA 330 Bachstelze was a type of rotary-wing kite, known as a gyroglider or rotor kite. They were towed behind German U-boats during World War II to allow a lookout to see farther.- Development :...

    , helicopter (prototype)
  • Focke Achgelis Fa 336 scout helicopter (prototype), 1944

Focke-Wulf
Focke-Wulf
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during World War II. Many of the company's successful fighter aircraft designs were slight modifications of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.-History:...

  • Focke-Wulf Fw 44
    Focke-Wulf Fw 44
    -External links:* * * * * * *...

     Stieglitz (Goldfinch), trainer (biplane)
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 56
    Focke-Wulf Fw 56
    -See also:-External links:* http://aviationtrivia.info/Focke-Wulf-FW-56-Stosser.php* http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/fw56.html* http://www.luftfahrtmuseum.com/htmi/itf/fw56.htm...

     Stösser (Falcon Hawk), trainer (parasol monoplane)
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 57
    Focke-Wulf Fw 57
    -References:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York:Doubleday, 1972. ISBN 0-385-05782-2.* Green, William and Gordon Swanborough. The Complete Book of Fighters. New York, Smithmark, 1994. ISBN 0-8317-3939-8....

    , heavy fighter + bomber (prototype)
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 58 Weihe (Kite), transport + trainer
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 61
    Focke-Wulf Fw 61
    |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Coates, Steve and Jean-Christophe Carbonel. Helicopters of the Third Reich. Crowborough, UK: Classic Publications Ltd., 2002. ISBN 1-903223-24-5....

    , helicopter (prototype)
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 62
    Focke-Wulf Fw 62
    -See also:-External links:* http://www.luftwaffe-reich.co.uk/focke-wulf-fw-62-reconnaissance.htm...

    , ship-borne reconnaissance (biplane seaplane)
  • Focke-Wulf Ta 152
    Focke-Wulf Ta 152
    The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 was a World War II German high-altitude fighter-interceptor designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf. The Ta 152 was a development of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 aircraft...

    , fighter (derived from Fw 190)
  • Focke-Wulf Ta 154
    Focke-Wulf Ta 154
    |-See also:-External links:*...

     Moskito (Mosquito), night-fighter
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 159
    Focke-Wulf Fw 159
    -References:...

    , fighter (prototype only)
  • Focke-Wulf Ta 183
    Focke-Wulf Ta 183
    The Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein was a design for a jet-powered fighter aircraft intended as the successor to the Messerschmitt Me 262 and other day fighters in Luftwaffe service during World War II. It was developed only to the extent of wind tunnel models when the war ended, but the basic design...

    , jet-engined fighter (prototype)
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 186
    Focke-Wulf Fw 186
    The Focke-Wulf Fw 186 was a one-man autogyro built by Focke-Wulf in 1937 with backing from the RLM , for use as a liaison and reconnaissance aircraft, and featured short takeoff and landing characteristics...

    , autogiro reconnaissance aircraft (prototype)
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 187
    Focke-Wulf Fw 187
    The Focke-Wulf Fw 187 Falke was a German aircraft developed in the late 1930s. It was created by Kurt Tank as a twin-engine, high-performance fighter, but the Luftwaffe never saw a need for the design, which fitted "between" the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Bf 110...

     Falke (Falcon), heavy fighter
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 189
    Focke-Wulf Fw 189
    |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Brown, Capt. Eric . Wings of the Luftwaffe. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. ISBN 0-385-13521-1....

     Uhu (Owl), tactical reconnaissance
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 190
    Focke-Wulf Fw 190
    The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger was a German Second World War single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank in the late 1930s. Powered by a radial engine, the 190 had ample power and was able to lift larger loads than its well-known counterpart, the Messerschmitt Bf 109...

     Würger (butcher-bird), fighter
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 191
    Focke-Wulf Fw 191
    The Focke-Wulf Fw 191 was a prototype German bomber of World War II. Two versions were intended to be produced, a twin-engine version using the Junkers Jumo 222 engine and a four-engine variant which was to have used the smaller Daimler-Benz DB 605 engine...

    , Bomber B
    Bomber B
    Bomber B was a German military aircraft design competition dating to just before the start of World War II to develop a second-generation high-speed bomber that would both be a direct successor to the Schnellbomber design philosophy, and to replace all medium and heavy bombers then in service with...

     competitor
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 200
    Focke-Wulf Fw 200
    The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, also known as Kurier to the Allies was a German all-metal four-engine monoplane originally developed by Focke-Wulf as a long-range airliner...

     Condor , transport + maritime patrol-bomber
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 259 Frontjäger (concept)
  • Focke-Wulf Fw 300
    Focke-Wulf Fw 300
    -See also:-References:* Herwig, Dieter and Rode, Heinz. Luftwaffe Secret Projects - Strategic Bombers 1935-45. Midland Publishing Ltd., 2000. ISBN 1-85780-092-3....

     proposed long-range version of Fw 200
  • Focke-Wulf Ta 400
    Focke-Wulf Ta 400
    |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Griehl, Manfred. Luftwaffe over America. London: Greenhill Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7607-8697-0....

     proposed long-range Amerika Bomber
    Amerika Bomber
    The Amerika-Bomber project was an initiative of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium, the Nazi Germany Air Ministry, to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the continental United States from Germany, a range of about 5,800 km...

  • Focke-Wulf Fw 491, (Fw 391 development) (project)

Sportsflugzeuge Göppingen
Schempp-Hirth
Schempp-Hirth Flugzeugbau GmbH is a glider manufacturer based in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany.-History:Martin Schempp founded his own company in Göppingen in 1935, with the assistance of Wolf Hirth. The company was initially called "Sportflugzeugbau Göppingen Martin Schempp"...

, "Göppingen"

  • Göppingen Gö 1 Wolf I sailplane,1935
  • Göppingen Gö 3 Minimoa sailplane, 1936
  • Göppingen Gö 4
    Göppingen Gö 4
    The Göppingen Gö 4 was a German sailplane of the late 1930s used for training pilots. Its most notable features included a side-by-side seating format and dual controls, making the plane ideal for use as a trainer...

     sailplane
  • Göppingen Gö 5 sailplane, 1937
  • Göppingen Gö 9
    Göppingen Gö 9
    The Göppingen Gö 9 was a research 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....

     development pusher-prop aircraft for Do 335 Pfeil

Gothaer Waggonfabrik
Gothaer Waggonfabrik
Gothaer Waggonfabrik was a German manufacturer of rolling stock established in the late nineteenth century at Gotha. During the two world wars, the company expanded into aircraft building.-World War I:...

, "Gotha"

  • Gotha Go 145
    Gotha Go 145
    -See also:-Bibliography:* Bishop, C. Luftwaffe Squadrons, 1939–1945. Amber Books, 2006.* Donald, D. Warplanes of the Luftwaffe: Combat aircraft of Hitler’s Luftwaffe, 1933 -1945. Aerospace Publishing, 2001....

    , trainer
  • Gotha Go 146, small transport(twin-engine), 1935
  • Gotha Go 147
    Gotha Go 147
    The Gotha Go 147 was a German experimental prototype reconnaissance aircraft designed in 1936. Designed by Gothaer Waggonfabrik and Albert Kalkert, construction of the two-seater aircraft was abandoned before the end of World War II....

    , STOL reconnaissance (prototype)
  • Gotha Go 229, fighter (flying-wing), alternative designation for the Horten Ho 229/Ho IX
  • Gotha Go 242
    Gotha Go 242
    -External Links:* FLIGHT, 12th February 1942, p. 130, early intelligence photo of Go 242, bottom of page....

    , transport glider
  • Gotha Go 244
    Gotha Go 244
    -See also:-References:NotesBibliography...

    , transport
  • Gotha Go 345
    Gotha Go 345
    The Gotha Go 345 was a prototype German Military glider of the Second World War. A single example was tested in 1944.-References:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York:Doubleday, 1972. ISBN 0-385-05782-2.-External links:*...

    , assault glider
  • Gotha Ka 430
    Gotha Ka 430
    |-References:* *...

    , transport glider


Heinkel
Heinkel
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after Ernst Heinkel. It is noted for producing bomber aircraft for the Luftwaffe in World War II and for important contributions to high-speed flight.-History:...

  • Heinkel He 37, fighter (biplane)
  • Heinkel He 38, fighter (biplane)
  • Heinkel He 43, fighter (biplane)
  • Heinkel He 45
    Heinkel He 45
    |-See also:...

    , bomber + trainer
  • Heinkel He 46
    Heinkel He 46
    -See also:-Bibliography:* Kay, A.L. and Smith, J.R. German Aircraft of World War II. Naval Institute Press, 2002....

    , reconnaissance
  • Heinkel He 49
    Heinkel He 49
    - Bibliography :* William Green and Gordon Swanborough. The Complete Book of Fighters. Colour Library Direct, Godalming, UK: 1994. ISBN 1-85833-777-1....

    , fighter (biplane)
  • Heinkel He 50
    Heinkel He 50
    |-See also:-Bibliography:* Donald, D., ed. Warplanes of the Luftwaffe: Combat Aircraft of Hitler’s Luftwaffe, 1933–1945. London: Aerospace Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1-8805888-10-2....

    , reconnaissance + dive bomber (biplane)
  • Heinkel He 51
    Heinkel He 51
    -See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Donald, David, ed. Warplanes of the Luftwaffe. London: Aerospace, 1994. ISBN 1-874023-56-5.* Green, William and Gordon Swanborough. "The Cadre Creator...Heinkel's Last Fighting Biplane". Air Enthusiast No. 36, May-August 1988. pp. 11–24. ISSN 0143-5450.*...

    , fighter + close-support (biplane)
  • Heinkel He 59
    Heinkel He 59
    |-See also:-Bibliography:* Green, William.War Planes of the Second World War: Volume Six: Floatplanes. London: Macdonald, 1962.* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York: Doubleday, 1972. ISBN 0-385-05782-2....

    , reconnaissance (biplane seaplane)
  • Heinkel He 60, ship-borne reconnaissance (biplane seaplane)
  • Heinkel He 70
    Heinkel He 70
    The Heinkel He 70 was a German mail plane and fast passenger aircraft of the 1930s, that also saw use in auxiliary bomber and reconnaissance roles. It had a relatively brief commercial career before it was replaced by types which could carry more passengers...

    , "Blitz" (Lightning), single-engine transport + mailplane, 1932
  • Heinkel He 72
    Heinkel He 72
    |-See also:-References:* Wood, Tony and Bill Gunston. Hitler's Luftwaffe: A Pictorial History and Technical Encyclopedia of Hitler's Air Power in World War II. London:Salamander books,1977. ISBN 0-86101-005-1....

     Kadett (Cadet), trainer
  • Heinkel He 74
    Heinkel He 74
    -External links:***...

    , fighter + advanced trainer (prototype)
  • Heinkel He 100
    Heinkel He 100
    The Heinkel He 100 was a German pre-World War II fighter aircraft design from Heinkel. Although it proved to be one of the fastest fighter aircraft in the world at the time of its development, the design was not ordered into series production. Approximately 19 prototypes and pre-production machines...

    , fighter
  • Heinkel He 111
    Heinkel He 111
    The Heinkel He 111 was a German aircraft designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter in the early 1930s in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Often described as a "Wolf in sheep's clothing", it masqueraded as a transport aircraft, but its purpose was to provide the Luftwaffe with a fast medium...

    , bomber
  • Heinkel He 112
    Heinkel He 112
    The Heinkel He 112 was a fighter aircraft designed by Walter and Siegfried Günter. It was one of four aircraft designed to compete for the Luftwaffes 1933 fighter contract, which was eventually won by the Messerschmitt Bf 109...

    , fighter
  • Heinkel He 113
    Heinkel He 113
    The Heinkel He 113 was a supposed Luftwaffe fighter aircraft of World War II, but which existed only as a propaganda and/or disinformation strategy....

    , (alternative designation for He 100)
  • Heinkel He 114
    Heinkel He 114
    -See also:-Bibliography:* Donald, David, ed. Warplanes of the Luftwaffe. London: Aerospace, 1994. ISBN 1-874023-56-5.* Smith J. R. and Kay, Anthony. German Aircraft of the Second World War. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1972. ISBN 0-370-00024-2....

    , reconnaissance seaplane
  • Heinkel He 115
    Heinkel He 115
    The Heinkel He 115 was a World War II Luftwaffe seaplane with three seats. It was used as a torpedo bomber and performed general seaplane duties, such as reconnaissance and minelaying. The plane was powered by two 720 kW BMW 132K nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engines...

    , general-purpose seaplane
  • Heinkel He 116
    Heinkel He 116
    -See also:-Bibliography:* Smith J. R. and Kay, Anthony. German Aircraft of the Second World War. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1972. ISBN 0-370-00024-2....

    , transport + reconnaissance
  • Heinkel He 119
    Heinkel He 119
    |-See also:-References:*Donald, David, "An Industry of Prototypes - Heinkel He 119", Wings of Fame, Volume 12. Aerospace Publishing Ltd., London, UK/AIRtime Publishing Inc., Westport, Connecticut, 1998, ISBN 1-86184-021-7 / 1-880588-23-4, pp. 30–34....

     single-engine high-speed bomber(prototypes), reconnaissance aircraft, 1937
  • Heinkel He 120 four-engine long-range passenger flying-boat(project), 1938
  • Heinkel He 162
    Heinkel He 162
    The Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger was a German single-engine, jet-powered fighter aircraft fielded by the Luftwaffe in World War II. Designed and built quickly, and made primarily of wood as metals were in very short supply and prioritised for other aircraft, the He 162 was nevertheless the fastest of...

     Volksjäger (People's Fighter), fighter (jet-engined)
  • Heinkel He 172, trainer (prototype)
  • Heinkel He 176, pioneering liquid-fuelled rocket-engined experimental aircraft (prototype)
  • Heinkel He 177
    Heinkel He 177
    The Heinkel He 177 Greif was the only operational long-range bomber to be operated by the Luftwaffe. Starting its existence as Germany's first purpose-built heavy bomber just before the war, and built in large numbers during World War II, it was also mistakenly tasked, right from its beginnings,...

     Greif (Griffon), long-range bomber
  • Heinkel He 178
    Heinkel He 178
    |-See also:*List of firsts in aviation-Bibliography:* Warsitz, Lutz: The First Jet Pilot - The Story of German Test Pilot Erich Warsitz, Pen and Sword Books Ltd., England, 2009, ISBN 9781844158188.-External links:...

    , pioneering jet-engined experimental aircraft
  • Heinkel He 219
    Heinkel He 219
    The Heinkel He 219 Uhu was a night fighter that served with the German Luftwaffe in the later stages of World War II. A relatively sophisticated design, the He 219 possessed a variety of innovations, including an advanced VHF-band intercept radar...

     Uhu (Eagle-Owl), night-fighter
  • Heinkel He 274
    Heinkel He 274
    The Heinkel He 274 was a German Luftwaffe heavy bomber developed during World War II, purpose-designed for high-altitude bombing with pressurized crew accommodation.- He 177 ancestry :...

    , high-altitude bomber
  • Heinkel He 277
    Heinkel He 277
    The Heinkel He 277 was a four-engine, long range heavy bomber design, a derivative of the He 177, intended for production and use by the German Luftwaffe during World War II. The main difference was in engine configuration...

    , never-built long range bomber design, entered in Amerika Bomber
    Amerika Bomber
    The Amerika-Bomber project was an initiative of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium, the Nazi Germany Air Ministry, to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the continental United States from Germany, a range of about 5,800 km...

    competition
  • Heinkel He 280
    Heinkel He 280
    The Heinkel He 280 was the first turbojet-powered fighter aircraft in the world. It was inspired by Ernst Heinkel's emphasis on research into high-speed flight and built on the company's experience with the He 178 jet prototype. A combination of technical and political factors led to it being...

    , fighter (jet-engined)
  • Heinkel He 343
    Heinkel He 343
    The Heinkel He 343 was a four-engine jet bomber project.-Design and development:It was designed by the German Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in the beginning of 1944. 20 of these aircraft were ordered. For shortening the development time and for re-use of existing parts, its general design was...

    , four jet engined bomber
  • Heinkel He 519
    Heinkel He 519
    The Heinkel He 519 was a high speed German single-seater bomber designed in 1944 by Heinkel. Based on the Heinkel He 119, a private venture by Heinkel to test radical ideas by the Günter brothers, the He 519 was designed to use the 24-cylinder Daimler-Benz DB 613, but the aircraft remained a...

    , high-speed bomber (He 119 derivative) (project only), 1944

Henschel

  • Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling (Butterfly), surface-to-air missile (rocket-engined)
  • Henschel Hs 121
    Henschel Hs 121
    -Cited sources:...

    , fighter + trainer (prototype)
  • Henschel Hs 123
    Henschel Hs 123
    The Henschel Hs 123 was a single-seat biplane dive bomber and close-support attack aircraft flown by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War and the early to mid-point of World War II...

    , ground-attack (biplane)
  • Henschel Hs 124
    Henschel Hs 124
    |-See also:-References:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York:Doubleday, 1972. ISBN 0-385-05782-2.-External links:*...

    , heavy fighter + bomber (prototype)
  • Henschel Hs 125
    Henschel Hs 125
    The Henschel Hs 125 was a German advanced training aircraft prototype featuring a single engine and low wings, designed by Henschel & Son and operated by the Luftwaffe during World War II. Only two prototypes were ever built....

    , fighter + trainer (prototype)
  • Henschel Hs 126
    Henschel Hs 126
    |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd., 1970 . ISBN 0-356-02382-6....

    , reconnaissance
  • Henschel Hs 127
    Henschel Hs 127
    -See also:-References:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd., 1970 . ISBN 0-356-02382-6....

    , jet-engined bomber (prototype)
  • Henschel Hs 129
    Henschel Hs 129
    The Henschel Hs 129 was a World War II ground-attack aircraft fielded by the German Luftwaffe. Its nickname, the Panzerknacker , is a deliberate pun—in German, it also means "safe cracker"...

    , ground-attack
  • Henschel Hs 130
    Henschel Hs 130
    - See also :- References :NotesBibliography* Donald, David.. Warplanes of the Luftwaffe. London:Aerospace, 1999. ISBN 1 874023 56 5.* Dressel, Joachim and Griel, Manfred. Bombers of the Luftwaffe. London:Arms and Armour Press, 1994. ISBN 1-85409-140-9.* Green, William. War Planes of the Second...

    , high altitude reconnaissance + bomber, Bomber B
    Bomber B
    Bomber B was a German military aircraft design competition dating to just before the start of World War II to develop a second-generation high-speed bomber that would both be a direct successor to the Schnellbomber design philosophy, and to replace all medium and heavy bombers then in service with...

     late entrant (prototype)
  • Henschel Hs 132
    Henschel Hs 132
    -Note:There is a widely available image that purports to show the completed Hs 132V1 outside the Henschel plant. This is actually an artist's impression by Gert Heumann.-See also:-References:NotesBibliography...

    , dive bomber (jet-engined) (prototype)
  • Henschel Hs 293
    Henschel Hs 293
    The Henschel Hs 293 was a World War II German anti-ship guided missile: a radio-controlled glide bomb with a rocket engine slung underneath it. It was designed by Herbert A. Wagner.- History :...

    , glide bomb (rocket-powered)
  • Henschel Hs 294
    Henschel Hs 294
    The Henschel Hs 294 was a guided air-to-sea missile developed by Germany during World War II, in 1943. It was a further development of the Henschel Hs 293, but was of an elongated, more streamlined shape. When launched from an aircraft, it was guided to its target by remote control...

    , anti-shipping glide bomb (rocket-powered)
  • Henschel Hs 297
    Henschel Hs 297
    The Henschel Hs 297 Föhn was a small German Surface-to-Air rocket from the Second World War.In principle it was similar to the Fliegerfaust, the main difference being that the Hs 297 was not designed as a shoulder-mounted weapon...

  • Henschel Hs 298, air-to-air missile (rocket-powered)

Junkers

  • Junkers W 33
    Junkers W 33
    The Junkers W 33 was a German-built singled-engine transport aircraft. It was aerodynamically and structurally advanced for its time , a clean, low-wing all metal cantilever monoplane. Almost 200 were produced...

    , single-engined light transport, 1926
  • Junkers W 34, single-engine light transport+reconnaissance (development of W33), 1933
  • Junkers Ju 52
    Junkers Ju 52
    The Junkers Ju 52 was a German transport aircraft manufactured from 1932 to 1945. It saw both civilian and military service during the 1930s and 1940s. In a civilian role, it flew with over 12 air carriers including Swissair and Deutsche Luft Hansa as an airliner and freight hauler...

     Tante Ju (Auntie Ju), 3-engine transport + bomber
  • Junkers Ef 61
    Junkers EF 61
    The Junkers EF 61 was a German prototype twin-engined high-altitude bomber aircraft of the 1930s. Only two examples were built, but it provided valuable information on pressure cabins which aided the design of later pressurised aircraft....

    , high-altitude fighter + reconnaissance (prototype)
  • Junkers Ju 86
    Junkers Ju 86
    The Junkers Ju 86 was a German monoplane bomber and civilian airliner designed in the early 1930s, and employed by both sides during World War II. The civilian model Ju 86B could carry 10 passengers. Two were delivered to Swissair and five to Luft Hansa...

    , bomber + reconnaissance
  • Junkers Ju 87
    Junkers Ju 87
    The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka was a two-man German ground-attack aircraft...

     Stuka, dive-bomber
  • Junkers Ju 88
    Junkers Ju 88
    The Junkers Ju 88 was a World War II German Luftwaffe twin-engine, multi-role aircraft. Designed by Hugo Junkers' company through the services of two American aviation engineers in the mid-1930s, it suffered from a number of technical problems during the later stages of its development and early...

    , bomber + reconnaissance + night-fighter
  • Junkers Ju 89
    Junkers Ju 89
    |-See also:-External links:*...

    , Ural bomber
    Ural bomber
    The Ural bomber was a program to develop a long-range bomber for the Luftwaffe, created and led by General Walther Wever in the early 1930s. Wever died in an air crash in 1936 and the program ended almost immediately...

     design contender for a heavy bomber (prototype)
  • Junkers Ju 90
    Junkers Ju 90
    The Junkers Ju 90 was a 40-seat, four-engine airliner developed for and used by Deutsche Luft Hansa shortly before World War II. It was based on the rejected Ju 89 bomber...

    , bomber (prototype)
  • Junkers Ju 188
    Junkers Ju 188
    The Junkers Ju 188 was a German Luftwaffe high-performance medium bomber built during World War II, the planned follow-on to the famed Ju 88 with better performance and payload...

    , Rächer (avenger), bomber
  • Junkers Ju 248, re-designation of Me 263
  • Junkers Ju 252
    Junkers Ju 252
    -References:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York:Doubleday, 1972. ISBN 0-385-05782-2.-External links:* *...

    , 3-engine transport, replacement for Ju 52
  • Junkers Ju 287
    Junkers Ju 287
    -Bibliography:* Hitchcock, Thomas H. Junkers 287 . Acton, MA: Monogram Aviation Publications, 1974. ISBN 0-914144-01-4.-External links:*...

    , heavy bomber (jet-engined) (prototype)
  • Junkers Ju 288
    Junkers Ju 288
    |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Hitchcock, Thomas H. Junkers 288 . Acton, MA: Monogram Aviation Publications, 1974. ISBN 0-914144-02-2.-External links:...

    , presumptive Bomber B
    Bomber B
    Bomber B was a German military aircraft design competition dating to just before the start of World War II to develop a second-generation high-speed bomber that would both be a direct successor to the Schnellbomber design philosophy, and to replace all medium and heavy bombers then in service with...

     competition winner, prototypes only
  • Junkers Ju 290
    Junkers Ju 290
    The Junkers Ju 290 was a long-range transport, maritime patrol aircraft and heavy bomber used by the Luftwaffe late in World War II.-Design and development:...

    , long-range bomber (prototype)
  • Junkers Ju 322
    Junkers Ju 322
    -See also:-Bibliography:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. London: Macdonald and Jane's Ltd., 1970 . ISBN 0-356-02382-6....

     Mammut, transport glider (prototype), 1941
  • Junkers Ju 352
    Junkers Ju 352
    -References:...

     Herkules (Hercules), 3-engine transport, development of Ju 252
  • Junkers Ju 388
    Junkers Ju 388
    The Junkers Ju 388 Störtebeker was a World War II German Luftwaffe multi-role aircraft based on the Ju 88 airframe by way of the Ju 188. It differed from its predecessors in being intended for high altitude operation, with design features such as a pressurized cockpit for its crew...

     Störtebeker, reconnaissance + night-fighter
  • Junkers Ju 390
    Junkers Ju 390
    The Junkers Ju 390 was a German aircraft intended to be used as a heavy transport, maritime patrol aircraft, and long-range bomber, a long-range derivative of the Ju 290...

    , six-engined Amerika Bomber
    Amerika Bomber
    The Amerika-Bomber project was an initiative of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium, the Nazi Germany Air Ministry, to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the continental United States from Germany, a range of about 5,800 km...

    competitor
  • Junkers Ju 488
    Junkers Ju 488
    -References:* Filly, Brian. Junkers Ju 88 in Action, part 2. Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., 1991.* Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War:Volume Ten Bombers and Reconnaissance Aircraft. London:Macdonald, 1968....

    , heavy bomber
  • Junkers EF 132, heavy bomber

Klemm
Klemm
The Klemm Leichtflugzeugbau GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturer noteworthy for sports and touring planes of the 1930s.The company was founded in Böblingen in 1926 by Dr...

  • Klemm Kl 31, single-engine transport, 1931
  • Klemm Kl 32, single-engine transport, 1931
  • Klemm Kl 33, (Klemm L33), single-seat ultra-light sportplane(prototype), 1933
  • Klemm Kl 35
    Klemm Kl 35
    |-See also:-Bibliography:* Mondey, David. The Concise Guide to Axis Aircraft of World War II. London: Chancellor, 1996. ISBN 1 85152 966 7.* Translated from de.wikipedia.org...

    , sportplane + trainer, 1935
  • Klemm Kl 36
    Klemm Kl 36
    |-See also:-References:* Marian Krzyżan: "Międzynarodowe turnieje lotnicze 1929-1934", WKiŁ, Warsaw 1988, ISBN 83-206-0637-3 *...

    , single-engine transport, 1934

Messerschmitt
Messerschmitt
Messerschmitt AG was a famous German aircraft manufacturing corporation named for its chief designer, Willy Messerschmitt, and known primarily for its World War II fighter aircraft, notably the Bf 109 and Me 262...

  • Messerschmitt Bf 108
    Messerschmitt Bf 108
    -Popular culture:Bf 108s and postwar Nord 1000s, played the role of Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters in war movies, including The Longest Day, 633 Squadron, Von Ryan's Express and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.-See also:-References:Notes...

     Taifun (Typhoon), trainer + transport
  • Messerschmitt Bf 109
    Messerschmitt Bf 109
    The Messerschmitt Bf 109, often called Me 109, was a German World War II fighter aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser during the early to mid 1930s...

    , fighter
  • Messerschmitt Bf 110
    Messerschmitt Bf 110
    The Messerschmitt Bf 110, often called Me 110, was a twin-engine heavy fighter in the service of the Luftwaffe during World War II. Hermann Göring was a proponent of the Bf 110, and nicknamed it his Eisenseiten...

    , heavy fighter + night-fighter
  • Messerschmitt Bf 162
    Messerschmitt Bf 162
    |-See also:-References:* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York:Doubleday, 1972. ISBN 0-385-05782-2....

    , bomber (prototype)
  • Messerschmitt Bf 163
    Messerschmitt Bf 163
    |- Sources :* Green, William Warplanes of the Third Reich. Galahad Books, 1986.-See also:...

     STOL reconnaissance aircraft (prototypes only)
  • Messerschmitt Me 163
    Messerschmitt Me 163
    The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, designed by Alexander Lippisch, was a German rocket-powered fighter aircraft. It is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational. Its design was revolutionary, and the Me 163 was capable of performance unrivaled at the time. Messerschmitt...

     Komet (Comet), interceptor (rocket-engined)
  • Messerschmitt Me 209
    Messerschmitt Me 209
    |-See also:-Bibliography:* Feist, Uwe. The Fighting Me 109. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1993. ISBN 1-85409-209-X.* Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War, Fighters, vol. I. London: Hanover House, 1960....

    , fighter + speed-record aircraft (prototype)
  • Messerschmitt Me 209-II
    Messerschmitt Me 209-II
    |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War, Fighters, vol. I. London: Hanover House, 1960....

    , fighter (prototype - Bf 109 derivative)
  • Messerschmitt Me 210
    Messerschmitt Me 210
    The Messerschmitt Me 210 was a German heavy fighter and ground-attack aircraft of World War II. The Me 210 was designed to replace the Bf 110 in heavy fighter role; design started before the opening of World War II. The first examples of the Me 210 were ready in 1939, but they proved to have poor...

    , heavy fighter + reconnaissance
  • Messerschmitt Me 261
    Messerschmitt Me 261
    -References:NotesBibliography* Donald, David, ed. Warplanes of the Luftwaffe. London: Aerospace Publishing, 1994. ISBN 1-874023-56-5.* Green, William. Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York: Galahad Books, 1986. ISBN 0-88365-666-3...

    , long-range reconnaissance
  • Messerschmitt Me 262
    Messerschmitt Me 262
    The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. Design work started before World War II began, but engine problems prevented the aircraft from attaining operational status with the Luftwaffe until mid-1944...

     Schwalbe (Swallow), fighter + attack (jet-engined)
  • Messerschmitt Me 263
    Messerschmitt Me 263
    -See also:http://www.aviastar.org/air/germany/me-263.php-References:* David Myhra, "Messerschmitt Me 263", Schiffer Publishing, 1999...

    , interceptor (rocket-engined)
  • Messerschmitt Me 264
    Messerschmitt Me 264
    |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Duffy, James P. Target: America. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2004. ISBN 0-275-96684-4....

    , long-range bomber, primary Amerika Bomber
    Amerika Bomber
    The Amerika-Bomber project was an initiative of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium, the Nazi Germany Air Ministry, to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the Luftwaffe that would be capable of striking the continental United States from Germany, a range of about 5,800 km...

    competitor (prototype)
  • Messerschmitt Me 309
    Messerschmitt Me 309
    |-References:*Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War, Fighters, vol. I. London: Hanover House, 1960.*Jackson, Robert. Infamous Aircraft: Dangerous Designs and their Vices. Barnsley, Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword Aviation, 2005. ISBN 1-84415-172-7.-External links:*...

    , fighter (prototype - Bf 109 derivative)
  • Messerschmitt Me 321
    Messerschmitt Me 321
    |-See also:-Bibliography:* Dabrowski, Hans-Peter. Messerschmitt Me 321/323: The Luftwaffe's "Giants" in World War II. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2001. ISBN 0-7643-1442-4....

     Gigant (Giant), transport glider
  • Messerschmitt Me 323
    Messerschmitt Me 323
    The Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant was a German military transport aircraft of World War II. It was a powered variant of the Me 321 military glider and was the largest land-based transport aircraft of the war...

     Gigant (Giant), 6-engined transport plane based on the 321 glider
  • Messerschmitt Me 409 heavy fighter, (Me 209 derivative) (project), 1944
  • Messerschmitt Me 410
    Messerschmitt Me 410
    The Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse was a German heavy fighter and Schnellbomber used by Luftwaffe during World War II. Though essentially a straightforward modification of the Me 210, it was designated the Me 410 to avoid association with its notoriously flawed predecessor.-Design and...

     Hornisse (Hornet), heavy fighter + reconnaissance
  • Messerschmitt Me 510 twin-engine fighter-bomber (Me 410 derivative) (project)
  • Messerschmitt Me 609 heavy fighter + bomber (project)
  • Messerschmitt Me P.1101
    Messerschmitt Me P.1101
    |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Myrha, David. Messerschmitt P.1101- X Planes of the Third Reich Series. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1999. ISBN 0-7643-0908-0....

     next generation fighter

Siebel
Siebel
Siebel, originally Flugzeugbau Halle, was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in 1937 in Halle an der Saale. It was revived as Siebelwerke in 1948. In 1952, it merged with ATG to form Siebelwerke-ATG Gmbh...

  • Siebel Fh 104
    Siebel Fh 104
    -Bibliography:*Smith, J.R. and Kay, Antony J. German Aircraft of the Second World War. London:Putnam, 1990. ISBN 85177 836 4....

     Hallore, medium transport
  • Siebel Si 201
    Siebel Si 201
    |-See also:...

    , STOL reconnaissance aircraft (prototype)
  • Siebel Si 202 "Hummel" sportplane + trainer, 1938
  • Siebel Si 204
    Siebel Si 204
    The Siebel Si 204 was a small twin-engined transport and trainer aircraft developed during World War II. It was based on the Fh 104. Originally designed in response to a RLM development order for a small civil transport plane in 1938, it was eventually produced for the Luftwaffe.-Development:The Si...

    , transport + aircrew trainer
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