Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau
AG () was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. Many of the company's successful
fighter aircraft
Fighter aircraft are fixed-wing military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield ...
designs were slight modifications of the
Focke-Wulf Fw 190
The Focke-Wulf Fw 190, nicknamed ''Würger'' (" Shrike") is a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. Along with its well-known counterpart, ...
. It is one of the predecessor companies of today's
Airbus
Airbus SE (; ; ; ) is a European Multinational corporation, multinational aerospace corporation. Airbus designs, manufactures and sells civil and military aerospace manufacturer, aerospace products worldwide and manufactures aircraft througho ...
.
History
The company was founded in
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
on 24 October 1923 as Bremer Flugzeugbau AG by Prof.
Henrich Focke
Henrich Focke (8 October 1890 – 25 February 1979) was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61, the first successful German helicopter.
Biography ...
,
Georg Wulf Georg Wulf (1895-1927) was a German aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer.
Biography
Wulf was born 17 May 1895 in Bremen. He was the son of a customs agent. He attended the high school on Dechanat Street.
Around 1910, Henrich Focke, with th ...
and Dr. rer. pol.
Werner Naumann
Werner Naumann (16 June 1909 – 25 October 1982) was a German civil servant and politician. He was State Secretary in Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the Nazi Germany era. He was appointed head of th ...
. Almost immediately, they renamed the company Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG (later Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH).
Focke-Wulf merged, under
government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
pressure, with
Albatros Flugzeugwerke
Albatros Flugzeugwerke GmbH 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, 1 ...
of
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
in 1931. The Albatros Flugzeugwerke engineer and test pilot
Kurt Tank
Kurt Waldemar Tank (24 February 1898 – 5 June 1983) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft o ...
became head of the technical department and started work on the
Fw 44 ''Stieglitz'' (Goldfinch).
Dr
Ludwig Roselius
Ludwig Roselius (2 June 1874 – 15 May 1943) was a German coffee merchant and founder of the company Kaffee HAG. He was born in Bremen and is credited with the development of commercial decaffeination of coffee. As a patron, he supported arti ...
became Chairman in 1925 and handed over to his brother Friedrich in early 1933. In 1938 Roselius' HAG combine increased its shareholding to 46% and
C. Lorenz AG
C. Lorenz AG (1880–1958) was a German electrical and electronics firm primarily located in Berlin. It innovated, developed, and marketed products for electric lighting, telegraphy, telephony, radar, and radio. It was acquired by ITT in 1930 and ...
secured 28%. The company was reconstituted as Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH and no longer had to publish its accounts. A substantial capital injection occurred at this time.
In August 1933 Hans Holle and Rudolf Schubert were given power of attorney over the Berlin branch of Focke-Wulf. Then in October 1933, Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau A.G. Albatros Berlin was officially registered with the Department of Trade.
Dr Roselius always remained the driving force of Focke-Wulf. He and his closest collaborator,
Barbara Goette
Barbara Goette (26 July 1908 – 23 October 1997) was a German academic. She lived in Germany and then Australia. From 1935 to 1943, she was the private secretary of Ludwig Roselius, creator of Böttcherstraße and Café HAG, and financier of Fo ...
, often met with technical director Professor Kurt Tank. When Roselius died in May 1943, Heinrich Puvogel (later chair of Focke-Wulf) raised 4 million RM and continued handling the financial affairs of Focke-Wulf as chief of Seehandel A.G.
Hanna Reitsch
Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and test pilot. Along with Melitta von Stauffenberg, she flight tested many of Germany's new aircraft during World War II and received many honors. Reitsch was amon ...
demonstrated the
Focke-Wulf Fw 61
The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 is often considered the first practical, functional helicopter, first flown in 1936. It was also known as the Fa 61, as Focke began a new company—Focke-Achgelis—in 1937.
Design and development
Professor Henrich Foc ...
, the first fully controllable
helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...
(as opposed to
autogyro
An autogyro (from Greek and , "self-turning"), also known as a ''gyroplane'', is a type of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. Forward thrust is provided independently, by an engine-driven propeller. Whi ...
), in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
in 1938. The four-engined
Fw 200
The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 ''Condor'', also known as ''Kurier'' to the Allies (English: Courier), was a German all-metal four-engined monoplane originally developed by Focke-Wulf as a long-range airliner. A Japanese request for a long-range maritime p ...
airliner flew nonstop between
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
and
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
on August 10, 1938, making the journey in 24 hours and 56 minutes. It was the first aircraft to fly that route without stopping. The return trip on August 13, 1938, took 19 hours and 47 minutes. These flights are commemorated with a plaque in the
Böttcherstraße street of
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
.
The
Fw 190
The Focke-Wulf Fw 190, nicknamed ''Würger'' ("Shrike") is a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. Along with its well-known counterpart, t ...
''Würger'' (Shrike/butcher-bird), designed from 1938 on, and produced in quantity from early 1941–1945, was a mainstay single-seat fighter for the ''
Luftwaffe
The ''Luftwaffe'' () was the aerial-warfare branch of the German ''Wehrmacht'' before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the ''Luftstreitkräfte'' of the Imperial Army and the '' Marine-Fliegerabtei ...
'' during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
.
![Focke-Wulf works at Bremen 1945](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Focke-Wulf_works_at_Bremen_1945.jpg)
Repeated
bombing of Bremen in World War II
The Bombing of Bremen in World War II by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and US Eighth Air Force involved both indiscriminate "area bombing" and, as capacity improved, more targeted raids upon the city's military-industrial facilities. These ...
resulted in the mass-production plants being moved to eastern Germany and
General Government
The General Government (german: Generalgouvernement, pl, Generalne Gubernatorstwo, uk, Генеральна губернія), also referred to as the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (german: Generalgouvernement für die be ...
, with
AGO Flugzeugwerke of
Oschersleben
Oschersleben () is a town in the Börde district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The population in 1905 was 13,271, in 2020 about 19,000.
History
On November 23, 994 Oschersleben was first mentioned in a document by the Emperor Otto III. In 1235 ...
as a major subcontractor for the Fw 190. Those plants used many foreign and
forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...
ers, and from 1944 also
prisoners of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held Captivity, captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610.
Belligerents hold priso ...
. Focke-Wulf's plant at
Marienburg produced approximately half of all Fw 190s and was bombed by the Eighth Air Force on October 9, 1943.
Many Focke-Wulf workers, including
Kurt Tank
Kurt Waldemar Tank (24 February 1898 – 5 June 1983) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who led the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931 to 1945. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft o ...
, worked at the
Instituto Aerotécnico in
Córdoba, Argentina
Córdoba () is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Punilla Valley, Sierras Chicas on the Primero River, Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba Province a ...
between 1947 and 1955. Others, like
Henrich Focke
Henrich Focke (8 October 1890 – 25 February 1979) was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61, the first successful German helicopter.
Biography ...
, went to Brazil's Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, helping Brazil's effort to build
Embraer
Embraer S.A. () is a Brazilian multinational aerospace manufacturer that produces commercial, military, executive and agricultural aircraft, and provides aeronautical services. It was founded in 1969 in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, where i ...
. Focke-Wulf began to make
glider
Glider may refer to:
Aircraft and transport Aircraft
* Glider (aircraft), heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight
** Glider (sailplane), a rigid-winged glider aircraft with an undercarriage, used in the sport of glidin ...
s in 1951, and in 1955, motorised planes. Focke-Wulf,
Weserflug
Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH, known as Weserflug, was an aircraft manufacturing company in Germany.
History
The company was founded in 1934 as a subsidiary of the ship and machine company Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG (DESCHIMAG). It began prod ...
and
Hamburger Flugzeugbau joined forces in 1961 to form the
Entwicklungsring Nord
The Entwicklungsring Nord (Northern development circle) - abbreviated ERNO - was a 1961 joint venture of Bremen-based Weserflug and Focke-Wulf with Hamburger Flugzeugbau to develop parts for rockets and get involved in space activities.
Jet-power ...
(ERNO) to develop rockets.
ITT Corporation
ITT Inc., formerly ITT Corporation, is an American worldwide manufacturing company based in Stamford, Connecticut. The company produces specialty components for the aerospace, transportation, energy and industrial markets. ITT's three businesses ...
, which had acquired a 25% stake in the company prior to the war, won $27 million in compensation in the 1960s for the damage that was inflicted on its share of the Focke-Wulf plant by WWII Allied bombing. Colonel
Sosthenes Behn
Sosthenes Behn (January 30, 1884 – June 6, 1957) was an American businessman, and the founder of ITT. He held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army.
Biography Early years
Sosthenes Behn was born in the island of St. Thomas, then par ...
,
Ludwig Roselius
Ludwig Roselius (2 June 1874 – 15 May 1943) was a German coffee merchant and founder of the company Kaffee HAG. He was born in Bremen and is credited with the development of commercial decaffeination of coffee. As a patron, he supported arti ...
and
Barbara Goette
Barbara Goette (26 July 1908 – 23 October 1997) was a German academic. She lived in Germany and then Australia. From 1935 to 1943, she was the private secretary of Ludwig Roselius, creator of Böttcherstraße and Café HAG, and financier of Fo ...
outfoxed
Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then ...
in 1936 when he tried to have Roselius removed as a major stakeholder from Focke-Wulf A.G. and reconstitution followed resulting in the privatized company Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH. Focke-Wulf formally merged with
Weserflug
Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH, known as Weserflug, was an aircraft manufacturing company in Germany.
History
The company was founded in 1934 as a subsidiary of the ship and machine company Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG (DESCHIMAG). It began prod ...
in 1964, becoming
Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke
Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW) was a West German aerospace manufacturer.
The company was formed by the 1964 merger of two German aerospace firms, Focke-Wulf and Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH (Weserflug). The formation of VFW was a natural outco ...
(VFW), which after several further mergers became the
European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. (EADS). EADS was later reorganised as
Airbus
Airbus SE (; ; ; ) is a European Multinational corporation, multinational aerospace corporation. Airbus designs, manufactures and sells civil and military aerospace manufacturer, aerospace products worldwide and manufactures aircraft througho ...
.
In early 2021 Focke Wulf Aircraft was re-registered as a trademark across the EU, the UK and Australia as a retailer of aviation watches and associated official Focke Wulf merchandise.
Aircraft
Company designations
In alphabetical order:
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Focke-Wulf A 3
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. It is one of the ...
*
Focke-Wulf A 4
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. It is one of the ...
*
Focke-Wulf A 5
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau Aktiengesellschaft, 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. ...
*
Focke-Wulf A 6
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. It is one of the ...
*
Focke-Wulf A 7
*
Focke-Wulf A 16
The Focke-Wulf A.16 was a German three/four passenger light transport monoplane designed by Heinrich Focke and Georg Wulf and was the first design built by the newly formed Focke-Wulf company.
Development
With the success of their earlier design ...
– light transport aircraft, 1924. First design built by Focke-Wulf.
*
Focke-Wulf A 17
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. It is one of the ...
''Möwe'' (Gull) – 8-passenger airliner, 1927.
*
Focke-Wulf A 20
The Focke-Wulf A 20 ''Habicht'' (German: "Hawk") was an airliner developed in Germany in the late 1920s. It was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailskid undercarriage. The fuselage was deep and seated four passengers in a fully enc ...
''Habicht'' (Hawk) – 4-passenger airliner, 1927.
*
Focke-Wulf A 21 ''Photomöwe'' – aerial photography version of A 17, 1929.
*
Focke-Wulf A 26
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. It is one of the p ...
– engine testbed
*
Focke-Wulf A 28 – re-engined A 20
*
Focke-Wulf A 29 – production version of A 17, 1929.
*
Focke-Wulf A 32
The Focke-Wulf A 32 ''Bussard'' (German: "Buzzard") was a small airliner produced in Germany in the early 1930s. It was developed rapidly at the request of NOBA when Messerschmitt was unable to deliver aircraft on schedule. Based closely on the ...
''Bussard'' (Buzzard) – airliner, 1930.
*
Focke-Wulf A 33 ''Sperber'' (Sparrowhawk) – 3-passenger airliner, 1930.
*
Focke-Wulf A 36 ''Mastgans'' (Mast Goose) – mail plane, 1931.
*
Focke-Wulf A 38 ''Möwe'' (Gull) – 10-passenger airliner, 1931.
*
Focke-Wulf F 19
The Focke-Wulf F 19 ''Ente'' (German: "Duck") was a German experimental "canard" aircraft in the late 1920s.
Design
The F 19 Ente was a high-wing monoplane with a canard layout and fixed tricycle undercarriage. The pilot sat in an open cockpit ...
''Ente'' (Duck) – experimental civil utility aircraft, 1927.
*
Focke-Wulf GL 18 __NOTOC__
The Focke-Wulf GL 18 was a 1920s German light transport monoplane, designed and built by Focke-Wulf.
Design and development
Based on the single-engine Focke-Wulf A 16 with the nose faired over and fitted with two wing-mounted 58 kW ...
– light transport aircraft developed from the A 16, 1926.
*
Focke-Wulf GL 22 – revised GL 18, 1927.
*
Focke-Wulf K 23 ''Buchfink'' (Chaffinch) – two-seat reconnaissance aircraft, 1928.
*
Focke-Wulf L 101 D
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. It is one of the ...
''Albatros''
*
Focke-Wulf S 1 – trainer, 1925.
*
Focke-Wulf S 2 – two-seat trainer, 1928.
*
Focke-Wulf S 24
The Focke-Wulf S 24 ''Kiebitz'' (German: "Lapwing") was a sport aircraft built in Germany in the later 1920s. It was a single-bay biplane of conventional design with equal-span, unstaggered wings, braced with N-type interplane strut
In aeronau ...
''Kiebitz'' (Lapwing) – sport aircraft, 1928.
*
Focke-Wulf S 39
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. It is one of the ...
*
Focke-Wulf S 48
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau Aktiengesellschaft, 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. ...
*
Focke-Wulf W 4 – reconnaissance
floatplane
A floatplane is a type of seaplane with one or more slender floats mounted under the fuselage to provide buoyancy. By contrast, a flying boat uses its fuselage for buoyancy. Either type of seaplane may also have landing gear suitable for land, ...
, 1927.
*
Focke-Wulf W 7 – maritime patrol
biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
, 1932.
RLM designations
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Focke-Wulf Fw 40
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. It is one of the ...
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 43 ''Falke'' (Falcon) – utility aircraft; known internally as A 43.
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 44
The Focke-Wulf Fw 44 ''Stieglitz'' ("Goldfinch") is a 1930s German two-seat biplane. An early design by Kurt Tank, it was produced by the Focke-Wulf company as a pilot training and sports flying aircraft. It was also eventually built under l ...
''Stieglitz'' (Goldfinch) – trainer (biplane), 1932.
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 47 ''Höhengeier'' (Vulture) – weather aircraft; known internally as A 47.
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 55 – biplane floatplane
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 56
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. It is one of the ...
''Stösser'' (Goshawk) – advanced trainer (parasol monoplane), 1933
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 57
The Focke-Wulf Fw 57 was a prototype German heavy fighter and fighter-bomber. Prototypes were built in 1936 but never entered production.
Design and development
In 1934, the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) declared a requirement for a ''Kampfzerstörer ...
– twin-engined heavy fighter-bomber (prototype), 1935.
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 58
The Focke-Wulf Fw 58 ''Weihe'' ( Harrier) was a German aircraft, built to fill a request by the ''Luftwaffe'' for a multi-role aircraft, to be used as an advanced trainer for pilots, gunners and radio operators.
Design and development
The Fw ...
''Weihe'' (Kite) – transport/photo reconnaissance/weather research aircraft, 1937.
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 61
The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 is often considered the first practical, functional helicopter, first flown in 1936. It was also known as the Fa 61, as Focke began a new company—Focke-Achgelis—in 1937.
Design and development
Professor Henrich Foc ...
– helicopter (prototype), 1936.
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 62 – ship-borne reconnaissance (biplane seaplane), 1937.
*
Focke-Wulf Ta 152
The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 is 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. It was intended to be made in at least three ver ...
– interceptor/fighter (derived from Fw 190), 1944.
*
Focke-Wulf Ta 154
The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 ''Moskito'' was a fast twin-engined German night fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf during late World War II. Only a few were produced, proving to have less impressive performance than the pro ...
''Moskito'' (Mosquito) – night-fighter with wood structure
like its British namesake, 1943.
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 159
The Focke-Wulf Fw 159 was an experimental German fighter of the 1930s, designed by Kurt Tank which never reached production, as it was considered inferior to the He 112 and Bf 109. It was a heavier variant of the Focke-Wulf Fw 56, with several im ...
– fighter (prototype only), 1935.
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Focke-Wulf Fw 186
The Focke-Wulf Fw 186 was a one-man autogyro, built by Focke-Wulf in 1937 with backing from the Air Ministry (Germany), RLM (''ReichsLuftfahrtMinisterium'' - Reich Aviation Ministry), for use as a liaison and reconnaissance aircraft. It featured ...
– autogiro reconnaissance aircraft (prototype), 1937.
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Focke-Wulf Fw 187
The Focke-Wulf Fw 187 ''Falke'' ("Falcon") was a German aircraft developed in the late 1930s. It was conceived by Kurt Tank as a twin-engine, high-performance fighter, but the ''Luftwaffe'' saw no role for the design, perceiving it as intermediat ...
''Falke'' (Falcon) – twin-engined two-seat heavy day fighter ("Zerstörer"), 1936.
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Focke-Wulf Fw 188
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. It is one of the ...
– reconnaissance aircraft (prototype), 1939.
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 189
The Focke-Wulf Fw 189 ''Uhu'' ("Eagle Owl") is a Nazi Germany, German twin-engine, twin-boom, three-seat tactical Aerial reconnaissance, reconnaissance and Liaison aircraft, army cooperation aircraft. It first flew in 1938 (Fw 189 V1), entered s ...
''Uhu'' (Eagle Owl) – twin-engined, three-seat army cooperation/tactical reconnaissance, 1938.
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Focke-Wulf Fw 190
The Focke-Wulf Fw 190, nicknamed ''Würger'' (" Shrike") is a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank at Focke-Wulf in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. Along with its well-known counterpart, ...
''Würger'' (Shrike/butcher-bird) – single-seat fighter/interceptor, 1939
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 191
The Focke-Wulf Fw 191 was a prototype German bomber of World War II, as the Focke-Wulf firm's entry for the Bomber B advanced medium bomber design competition. Two versions were intended to be produced, a twin-engine version using the Junkers J ...
– twin-engine
Bomber B
Bomber B was a German military aircraft design competition organised just before the start of World War II to develop a second-generation high-speed bomber for the ''Luftwaffe''. The new designs would be a direct successor to the ''Schnellbombe ...
design competitor (prototype), 1942.
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 200
The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 ''Condor'', also known as ''Kurier'' to the Allies (English: Courier), was a German all-metal four-engined monoplane originally developed by Focke-Wulf as a long-range airliner. A Japanese request for a long-range maritime ...
''Condor'' – four-engine airliner and maritime patrol-bomber, 1937.
Built under license
*
Focke-Wulf C.20 – license-built (autogyro)
*
Focke-Wulf C.30 ''Heuschrecke'' (Grasshopper) – license-built (autogyro)
*
Focke-Wulf FWP.149D – license-built Piaggio P.149
Planned/unfinished designs
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 42
The Focke-Wulf Fw 42 was a design for a twin-engined medium bomber, of canard configuration, that was designed by Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG in Germany in the early 1930s. Several air forces expressed interest in the aircraft. However, despite ...
– twin-engined medium bomber project developed from the F 19, 1929.
*
Focke-Wulf Fw 160 – A design for a four-engined bomber with a twin-boom, unconnected tail.
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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 had been developed only to the exten ...
''Huckebein'' – design for a jet-engined fighter, 1942.
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Focke-Wulf Fw 206 – planned commercial aircraft, 1940.
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Focke-Wulf Fw 238 – long-range bomber project (RLM airframe number 8-238 already used by
Blohm und Voss)
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Focke-Wulf Fw 249 – large transport aircraft project; officially designated as Project 195.
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Focke-Wulf Fw 250
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. It is one of the ...
– twin-engine jet fighter project
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Focke-Wulf Fw 252
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau Aktiengesellschaft, 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. ...
– single engine jet fighter
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Focke-Wulf Ta 254
The Focke-Wulf Ta 254 was a proposed German development of the Ta 154
The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 ''Moskito'' was a fast twin-engined German night fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf during late World War II. Only a few ...
– proposed version of the Ta 154 fighter.
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Focke-Wulf Fw 259
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. It is one of the ...
''Frontjäger'' (concept)
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Focke-Wulf Fw 260
The Focke-Wulf Fw 260 Flamingo and Focke-Wulf Fw 300 were a pair of related VTOL airliner projects, designed by Focke-Wulf during the early 1960s. Neither aircraft was built.
Fw 260
The Fw 260 design was displayed at the Luftfahrtschau Hanover ...
– 1960s VTOL airliner proposal
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Focke-Wulf Fw 261
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. It is one of the ...
– four-engine bomber/reconnaissance/U-Boat support aircraft project
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Focke-Wulf Ta 283
The Focke-Wulf Strahlrohrjager was a German swept wing, ramjet-powered interceptor aircraft proposal during World War II. The project was proposed at the same time as the Focke-Wulf Super Lorin and remained only a design study until the surrend ...
– interceptor fighter project
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Focke-Wulf Fw 300
The Focke-Wulf Fw 300 was a proposed very-long-range civil airliner, transport, reconnaissance aircraft and anti-ship aircraft, designed by Focke-Wulf in 1941 and 1942. The design was intended to replace the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 ''Condor''.
Design ...
– proposed long-range version of Fw 200, 1941-1942.
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Focke-Wulf Ta 400
The Focke-Wulf Ta 400 was a large six-engined heavy bomber design developed in Nazi Germany in 1943 by Focke-Wulf as a serious contender for the Amerikabomber project. One of the first aircraft to be developed from components from multiple coun ...
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Amerikabomber
The ''Amerikabomber'' () project was an initiative of the German Ministry of Aviation (''Reichsluftfahrtministerium'') to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the ''Luftwaffe'' that would be capable of striking the United States (specifical ...
'' design competitor, never built, 1943.
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Focke-Wulf Fw P.03.10206 – series of long-range strategic bomber projects, 1944.
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Focke-Wulf Fw P.03.10221-15
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. It is one of the ...
– large capacity strategic transport, 1941.
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Focke-Wulf Fw P.03.10025 – A 1944 design with a swept wing, a forward-swept V-tail, and two pusher propellers at the rear.
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Focke-Wulf Fw 03.10251 – series of jet-engined night and bad weather fighters
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Focke-Wulf Fighter Project w/BMW803 – A 1941 design with a connected twin-boom tail, slightly swept-back wings, and two pusher propellers at the rear.
Projects
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Focke-Wulf 1000x1000x1000
The Focke-Wulf 1000x1000x1000, also known as Focke-Wulf Fw 239, was a twinjet bomber project for the Luftwaffe, designed by the Focke-Wulf aircraft manufacturing company during the last years of the Third Reich.
Their designation meant that these ...
– series of bomber designs, 1944.
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Focke-Wulf Project I __NOTOC__
The Focke-Wulf Project I was a design study for a jet Fighter aircraft, fighter, to be built in Nazi Germany, Germany during World War II. In 1942 in aviation, 1942, the ''Reichsluftministerium'' (RLM) asked Professor Kurt Tank of the F ...
– single-seat jet fighter, 1943.
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Focke-Wulf Project II __NOTOC__
The Focke-Wulf Project II was a design study for a single-seat jet fighter, carried out in Germany during World War II.
Development
Owing to manufacturing difficulties envisaged with other all-new jet fighter developments, Focke-Wulf' ...
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Focke-Wulf Project III __NOTOC__
The Focke-Wulf Project III was a design study for a jet fighter, carried out in Germany in June 1943. It aimed to reduce the risk of foreign object damage to the engine that had been foreseen for the Project II, by relocating the engi ...
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Focke-Wulf Project VII "Flitzer" – fighter project, 1944.
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Focke-Wulf Project VIII __NOTOC__
The Focke-Wulf ''Peterle'' was a design study for a turboprop-powered fighter-bomber, undertaken in Germany during World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war tha ...
– turboprop powered fighter-bomber project, also designated Fw 281
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Focke Rochen
The Focke Rochen (engl.: Focke Stingray), also known as ''Focke-Wulf Schnellflugzeug'' or ''Focke-Wulf VTOL'' was a German VTOL aircraft project. Designed by Heinrich Focke of the Focke-Wulf company towards the end of World War II, the project rem ...
– 1950s VTOL fighter project
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Focke-Wulf Super Lorin
The Focke-Wulf Super Lorin was a proposed German jet interceptor project. Designed towards the end of World War II by engineer Heinz von Halen, the project remained only a factory design exercise, and never received an RLM airframe number befor ...
– Ramjet-rocket combo powered fighter
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Focke-Wulf Fw 354 Triebflügel – tail-sitter VTOL interceptor design
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Focke-Wulf TO Project
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. It is one of the ...
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Focke-Wulf Volksjäger
The Focke-Wulf ''Volksjäger'', meaning "People's Fighter" in German, was a German emergency fighter project for the ''Luftwaffe''. It was designed by Focke-Wulf industries towards the end of World War II as part of the defense effort against the ...
– rocket-powered interceptor fighter project
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Focke-Wulf VTOL Project
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau Aktiengesellschaft, 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. ...
See also
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Focke-Achgelis
Focke-Achgelis & Co. G.m.b.H. was a German helicopter company founded in 1937 by Henrich Focke and Gerd Achgelis.
History
Henrich Focke was ousted in 1936 from the Focke-Wulf company, which he had cofounded in 1924, due to shareholder pressure ...
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List of RLM aircraft designations
This is a list of aircraft type numbers allocated by an institution under the direction of ''Heereswaffenamt'' (before May 1933) and the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) between 1933 and 1945 for German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related ...
Notes
References
External links
List of Focke-Wulf aircraft*
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