The Focke-Wulf A 33 ''Sperber'' (German: "Sparrowhawk") was a small

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, produced in

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in the early 1930s. It was a high-wing

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of conventional design, resembling a scaled-down version of the contemporary A 32 design. Only three examples were built, each purchased for air taxi duties with separate German airlines. One eventually briefly joined the fleet of ''

Deutsche Luft Hansa ''Deutsche Luft Hansa A.G.'' (from 1933 styled as ''Deutsche Lufthansa'' and also known as ''Luft Hansa'', ''Lufthansa'', or DLH) was a German airline, serving as flag carrier of the country during the later years of the Weimar Republic and th ...

'' in 1937.

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German aircraft between 1919-1945
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