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This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system. The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used ...
The aircraft in this list include prototype versions of aircraft used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and unfinished wartime experimental programmes. In the former, development can stretch back to the 1920s and in the latter the project must have started between 1939-1945.
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (Stork), STOL reconnaissance aircraft. Focke-Wulf Fw 62, ship-borne reconnaissance (biplane seaplane) Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, transport + maritime patrol-bomber. Focke-Wulf Fw 300 proposed long-range version of Fw 200. Gotha Go 147, STOL reconnaissance (prototype) Heinkel He 46, reconnaissance.
The following is a list of aircraft production by Germany during World War IIby type and year. Note that some figures may not be accurate, and it is not comprehensive. Aircraft variants of different roles are listed separately. Related types are listed next to each other; see RLM aircraft designation systemfor an explanation.
1947 (Turkey) 1949 (France) Developed into. Focke-Wulf Ta 152. The Focke-Wulf Fw 190, nicknamed Würger[ b ] (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, the Messerschmitt Bf 109, the Fw 190 ...
Blohm & Voss Ha 140 torpedo bomber seaplane (prototype) Blohm & Voss BV 141 asymmetric reconnaissance (prototype) Blohm & Voss BV 142 transport/maritime patrol. Blohm & Voss Bv 144 transport. Blohm & Voss BV 155 high-altitude interceptor (formerly Me 155) Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking ('Viking'), transport flying-boat.
Messerschmitt Bf 109. The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was, along with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, the backbone of the Luftwaffe 's fighter force. [3] The Bf 109 first saw operational service in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. It was still in service at the end of World War II in 1945. [3]
During World War II, German pilots claimed roughly 70,000 aerial victories, while over 75,000 Luftwaffe aircraft were destroyed or significantly damaged. Of these, nearly 40,000 were lost entirely. The Luftwaffe had only two commanders-in-chief throughout its history: Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and later Generalfeldmarschall Robert Ritter ...