The Gotha Go 149 was a military aircraft developed in

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in the mid-1930s for training fighter pilots. It was a conventional low-wing cantilever

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with tailwheel undercarriage, the main units of which retracted inwards. The wing was wooden, while the

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fuselage was metal. Two prototypes were constructed, and an armed version was also proposed as a light home-defence fighter (''Heimatschutzjäger'') armed with two 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine guns, but the ''

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'' did not purchase either version of the design, and no further examples were built.

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* * * {{RLM aircraft designations 1930s German military trainer aircraft Go 149 Single-engined tractor aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1936