The Caspar C 36 was an aircraft developed in

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for

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in the late 1920s.

Design and development

The C 36 was a single-bay biplane with staggered, equal-span wings and a BMW VI engine. The C 36 was tested in landplane and seaplane forms, but failed to win orders; the sole C 36 (civil registration D-1316) was given to RDL Erprobungsstelle in June 1929, before being decommissioned in early 1932.

Variants

;C 36: landplane form with conventional tailskid undercarriage. ;C 36W: floatplane form with two large strut mounted floats.

Design and development

Variants

Specifications (C 36W)

References

Further reading