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what is it?
The Focke-Wulf Ta 152 is a German high-altitude fighter and interceptor aircraft designed by Kurt Tank and produced by Focke-Wulf. It entered production too late and in insufficient numbers to have a significant role in the Second World War. The Ta 152 was developed from the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · retractable tailwheel (taildragger) · 14.4 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 82 years ago, in 1944.
- Top speed is 4.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 14.4 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 2,000 km: 11× Amsterdam to Brussels.
- Can fly 1.7× 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
- 1944
- introduced
- 1944
- retired
- 1945
- status
- retired
- number built
- 150
- role
- land-based fighter monoplane
- origin
- German Reich
- makers
- Focke-Wulf
- engines
- 1× Junkers Jumo 213E or Junkers Jumo 213E-1
- length
- 10.8 m
- wingspan
- 14.4 m
- height
- 3.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 5,217 kg
- top speed
- 580 km/h
- range
- 2,000 km
- ceiling
- 15,100 m
- landing gear
- retractable conventional landing gear
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q311781, Wikipedia: Focke-Wulf Ta 152 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.