Junkers F 13

what is it?

The Junkers F 13 is the world's first all-metal transport aircraft, designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Junkers. Produced shortly after the end of the First World War, it was a cantilever-wing monoplane with enclosed accommodation for four passengers and a two seat open cockpit. Like all Junkers duralumin-structured designs, from the 1918 J 7 to the 1932 Ju 46, (some 35 models), it has an aluminium alloy (duralumin) structure entirely covered with Junkers' characteristic corrugated and stressed duralumin skin.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 14.8 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 173 km/htop speed
• range 1,400 kmwithout refuelling
• size 1,640 kgmax take-off weight
• built 332made 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 107 years ago, in 1919.
• 🚗Wingspan of 14.8 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🌍Range of 1,400 km: 8× Amsterdam to Brussels.

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

spec sheet

first flight

1919-06-25

introduced

1920

retired

1951

status

retired

number built

332

role

passenger transport

origin

Weimar Republic

makers

Junkers Motorenbau und Junkers Flugzeugwerk

engines

1× Mercedes D.IIIa

length

9.6 m

wingspan

14.8 m

height

3.5 m

max take-off weight

1,640 kg

top speed

173 km/h

cruise speed

160 km/h

range

1,400 km

ceiling

5,000 m

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