Junkers A 35

what is it?

Junkers A 35 was a two-seater cantilever monoplane, used for postal, training and military purposes. The aircraft was designed in the 1920s by Junkers in Germany and manufactured at Dessau and by AB Flygindustri in Limhamn, Sweden and conversions from A 20s were made in Fili, Russia.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · low wing · 15.9 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 208 km/htop speed
• size 1,600 kgmax take-off weight
• built 186made in total

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 100 years ago, in 1926.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.6× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 15.9 m: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1926

number built

186

role

postal, training and military aircraft

origin

German Reich

makers

Junkers Motorenbau und Junkers Flugzeugwerk

engines

1× Junkers L 5 / Junkers L5

crew

2

length

8.2 m

wingspan

15.9 m

height

3.5 m

max take-off weight

1,600 kg

top speed

208 km/h

cruise speed

185 km/h

range

—

ceiling

6,400 m

wings

low wing

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.