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what is it?
The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito was a fast twin-engined night fighter aircraft designed by the German aeronautical engineer Kurt Tank and produced by the aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf. It was unofficially named Moskito due to its similarities with the de Havilland Mosquito (which was also largely made of wood) that were already in service with the Royal Air Force (RAF). The Ta 154 commenced development in 1942 and was worked on during much of the latter half of the Second World War.
How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · 16 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 5.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 16 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,365 km: 8× Amsterdam to Brussels.
- Can fly 1.2× 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
- 1943-07-01
- introduced
- 1944
- number built
- 50
- role
- night fighter
- origin
- Nazi Germany
- makers
- Focke-Wulf
- engines
- 2× Junkers Jumo 213E
- length
- 12.5 m
- wingspan
- 16 m
- height
- 3.5 m
- max take-off weight
- 9,550 kg
- top speed
- 650 km/h
- range
- 1,365 km
- ceiling
- 10,900 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q670627, Wikipedia: Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.