what is it?
The Dornier Do 317 was a prototype German medium bomber of World War II.
How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · shoulder wing · 20.6 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 83 years ago, in 1943.
- Top speed is 4.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 20.6 m: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Range of 3,980 km: 22× Amsterdam to Brussels.
- Can fly 1.1× higher than Mount Everest (8,849 m).
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1943-09-08
- number built
- 6
- role
- medium bomber
- makers
- Dornier
- engines
- 2× Daimler-Benz DB 603A / Daimler-Benz DB 603
- crew
- 4
- length
- 16.8 m
- wingspan
- 20.6 m
- height
- 5.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 20.1 t
- top speed
- 560 km/h
- cruise speed
- 420 km/h
- range
- 3,980 km
- ceiling
- 9,800 m
- wings
- shoulder wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q589371, Wikipedia: Dornier Do 317 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.