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Title: New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)

Author: Thompson, Wing Commander H. L.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1959, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force (Volume III)

Appendix IV — PRINCIPAL OPERATIONAL AIRCRAFT OF GERMAN AIR FORCE IN MIDDLE EAST

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Appendix IV
PRINCIPAL OPERATIONAL AIRCRAFT OF GERMAN AIR FORCE IN MIDDLE EAST

German Fighters
Aircraft Type and Mark	Maximum Speed	Service Ceiling	Rate of Climb	Armament
Focke-Wulf 109A3	385 m.p.h. at 19,000 feet	36,000 feet	6-5 minutes to 18,000 feet	Four 20 m.m. Two 7-9 m.m.
Focke-Wulf 190D	435 m.p.h. at 25,000 feet	39,000 feet	6-5 minutes to 20,000 feet	One 30 m.m. Two 20 m.m. Two 13 m.m.
Junkers 88 C5	347 m.p.h. at 20,000 feet	30,200 feet	10.3 minutes to 18,500 feet	Six 7-9 m.m. Three 20 m.m.
Messerschmitt 109E	355 m.p.h. at 18,000 feet	35,000 feet	6-2 minutes to 16,500 feet	Two 7-9 m.m. Two 20 m.m.
Messerschmitt 109F	395 m.p.h. at 22,000 feet	36,500 feet	5-75 minutes to 17,000 feet	Two 7-9 m.m. Three 20 m.m.
Messerschmitt 109G	400 m.p.h. at 22,000 feet	38,500 feet	6 minutes to 19,000 feet	Two 7-9/13 m.m.
Messerschmitt 110G	368 m.p.h. at 19,000 feet	36,800 feet	7-3 minutes to 18,000 feet	Six 7-9 m.m. Four 20 m.m. One 37 m.m.
Messerschmitt 210	370 m.p.h. at 21,000 feet	29,000 feet	11-8 minutes to 19,000 feet	Two 20 m.m. Two 13 m.m. Two 7-9 m.m.
Messerschmitt 262 (jet aircraft)	500-550 m.p.h. at 29,000 feet	39,500 feet	5 minutes to 32,800 feet	Four 30 m.m. Three 20 m.m. or six 30 m.m.
Arado 234B (jet aircraft)	490 m.p.h. at 25,000 feet	38,000 feet	8 minutes to 20,000 feet	Four or five 20 m.m.

German Bomber and Reconnaissance Aircraft
Aircraft Type and Mark	Normal Cruising Speed	Radius of Action With Associated Bomb Load	Typical Bomb Load	Armament
Dornier 217E	240 m.p.h. at 15,000 feet	585 miles with 4400 lb.	Four 1100 lb. or two 2200 lb. and four 110 lb.	Four 7-9 m.m. Four 13 m.m. One 15 m.m.
Focke-Wulf 200 (Condor)	210 m.p.h. at 16,000 feet	1350 miles on recce without bombs or 1075 miles with 3600 lb.	Three 1100 lb. or five 550 lb.	Three 15/20 m.m. and three 13 m.m.
Heinkel 111	210 m.p.h. at 17,000 feet	760 miles with 2200 lb.	Four 550 lb.	Seven 7-9 m.m. Two 20 m.m.
Heinkel 177	260 m.p.h. at 17,000 feet	550 miles with 12,100 lb. 1300 miles with 2200 lb.	Six 550 lb. and four 2200 lb. or four 1650 lb. torpedoes or two HS293 glider bombs	Five 13 m.m. Four 13/20 m.m.
Junkers 88 A4	254 m.p.h. at 16,400 feet	640 miles with 4400 lb. 655 miles with 2200 lb.	Ten 154 lb. and four 550 lb. or ten 154 lb. and four 1100 lb.	Seven 7-9 m.m. One 20 m.m.page 389
Junkers 88 B3	277 m.p.h. at 18,000 feet	640 miles with 2200 lb.	Four 550 lb. or four 550 lb. and ten 154 lb.	Six 7-9 or two 7-9 m.m. and two 13 m.m.
Junkers-S1	290 m.p.h. at 18,000 feet	350 miles with 1980 lb.	Eighteen 110 lb. or eighteen 154 lb.	One 7-9 m.m. One 13 m.m.
Junkers 87B (Stukadive-bomber)	200 m.p.h. at 15,000 feet	180 miles with 1100 lb.	One 1100 lb. or one 550 lb. and four 110 lb. or one 1100 lb. and four 110 lb.	Three 7-9 m.m.
Junkers 87D (Stukadive-bomber)	200 m.p.h. at 15,000 feet	360 miles with 2200 lb.	One 1100 lb. and four 110 lb. or one 2200 lb. or one 2200 lb. and four 110 lb.	Four 7-9 m.m.