what is it?
The Dornier Do H Falke (Falcon) was a German single-seat fighter, designed by Claude Dornier and built by Dornier Flugzeugwerke. Although an advanced design for its time, being evaluated by the United States Navy as the Wright WP-1, it did not go into production.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 10 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 104 years ago, in 1922.
- Top speed is 2.0× 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
- 1922-11-01
- number built
- 5
- role
- fighter
- makers
- Dornier
- engines
- 1× Wright-Hisso H-3 V-8 piston engine / BMW IV / Hispano-Suiza 8
- length
- 7.4 m
- wingspan
- 10 m
- height
- 2.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,213 kg
- top speed
- 261 km/h
- range
- 350 km
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5298125, Wikipedia: Dornier Do H Falke (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.