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what is it?
The Heinkel He 119 was an experimental single-propeller monoplane with two coupled engines, developed in Germany. A private venture by Heinkel to test radical ideas by the Günter brothers, the He 119 was originally intended to act as an reconnaissance bomber capable of eluding all fighters due to its high performance.
How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · low wing · 15.9 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 4.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 15.9 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 3,121 km: 17× Amsterdam to Brussels.
piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1937-06
- number built
- 8
- role
- reconnaissance bomber
- makers
- Heinkel
- engines
- 1× Daimler-Benz DB 606A-2 / Daimler-Benz DB 601
- crew
- 3
- length
- 14.8 m
- wingspan
- 15.9 m
- height
- 5.4 m
- max take-off weight
- 7,581 kg
- top speed
- 591 km/h
- cruise speed
- 510 km/h
- range
- 3,121 km
- ceiling
- 8,500 m
- wings
- low wing
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q574104, Wikipedia: Heinkel He 119 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.