Arado Ar 64

Ar 64
Role	Biplane Fighter
Manufacturer	Arado
First flight	Spring 1930
Primary user	Luftwaffe
Number built	24

The Arado Ar 64 was a single-seat biplane fighter developed in the late 1920s. It was among the first fighters produced when Germany abandoned the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles and began rearming.

The Ar 64 was a derivative of the earlier Arado SD II and Arado SD III, based upon the Reichswehrministerium's (Reich War Ministry) requirement for a successor to the Fokker D.XIII fighter. The AR 64D and 64E would the first fighters built in quantity by Germany since the end of World War I. The two differed as the 64D had a revised undercarriage and a four-blade propeller and the 64E had a two-blade propeller attached to a direct-drive version of the Jupiter VI radial engine. In the summer of 1932, 20 aircraft of both types were ordered and 19 of them were assigned to the Jagdfliegerschule at Schleissheim and the Jagdstaffeln of the Fliegergruppe Doberitz and Fliegergruppe Damm.

Data from:

Data from Aircraft of the Third Reich

General characteristics

Performance

Armament

2 × 7.92 mm (0.312 in) MG 17 machine guns

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