what is it?
The Focke-Wulf Fw 187 Falke ("Falcon") was a German aircraft designed in 1935. It was conceived by Kurt Tank as a twin-engine, high-performance fighter, but the Luftwaffe saw no role for the design, perceiving it as intermediate between the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Bf 110. Later prototypes were adapted to two-seats to compete with the Bf 110 in the heavy fighter (Zerstörer) role, but only nine aircraft were built in total.
How to recognise it: 2 piston engines with propellers · 15.3 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 89 years ago, in 1937.
- Top speed is 4.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 15.3 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- 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
- 1937-05
- number built
- 9
- role
- heavy fighter
- origin
- German Reich
- makers
- Focke-Wulf
- engines
- 2× Junkers Jumo 210Ga
- crew
- 2
- length
- 11.1 m
- wingspan
- 15.3 m
- height
- 3.9 m
- max take-off weight
- 5,000 kg
- top speed
- 525 km/h
- range
- —
- ceiling
- 10,000 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q126943, Wikipedia: Focke-Wulf Fw 187 Falke (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.