what is it?
The Heinkel P.1077 (or He P.1077) was a single seat interceptor design developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel under the Emergency Fighter Program during the last year of the Third Reich. This rocket-powered project was originally known as He P.1068, but that name was later used for a Heinkel design project for a turbojet-powered medium bomber.
How to recognise it: 5 engines · 4.6 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
- Top speed is 7.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
spec sheet
- first flight
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- number built
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- role
- interceptor
- origin
- German Reich
- makers
- Heinkel
- engines
- 5× Walter HWK 109-509 / take-off rockets
- length
- 6.5 m
- wingspan
- 4.6 m
- height
- 1 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,800 kg
- top speed
- 1,000 km/h
- range
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Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q502494, Wikipedia: Heinkel P.1077 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.