what is it?
The Arado Ar 64 was a single-seat biplane fighter designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado. It was among the first fighters produced when Germany abandoned the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles and began rearming. The Ar 64 was developed from the earlier Arado SD II and Arado SD III specifically to equip the so-called 'display squadrons' of the Reichswehr (German armed forces).
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 9.9 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 96 years ago, in 1930.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 9.9 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1930
- number built
- 24
- role
- biplane fighter
- makers
- Arado Flugzeugwerke
- engines
- 1× Siemens (Bristol) Jupiter VI
- length
- 8.4 m
- wingspan
- 9.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,680 kg
- top speed
- 250 km/h
- range
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Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q624810, Wikipedia: Arado Ar 64 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.