Arado Ar 66

what is it?

The Arado Ar 66 was a single-engined twin-seat training biplane designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Arado. It was the last aircraft to be designed by the aeronautical engineer Walter Rethel in collaboration with Arado. The Ar 66 was developed as a military trainer aircraft during the early 1930s.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 210 km/htop speed
• size 1,330 kgmax take-off weight
• built 1,456made in total

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 94 years ago, in 1932.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 10 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

1932

introduced

1933

number built

1,456

role

trainer

origin

German Reich

makers

Arado Flugzeugwerke

engines

1× Argus As 10C / Argus As 10

length

8.3 m

wingspan

10 m

height

2.9 m

max take-off weight

1,330 kg

top speed

210 km/h

cruise speed

175 km/h

range

—

ceiling

4,500 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.