As 10 | |
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Argus As 10 installed in a Fieseler Storch at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford | |
Type | Piston aircraft engine |
Manufacturer | Argus Motoren |
First run | 1928 |
Major applications |
Fieseler Fi 156 Focke-Wulf Fw 56 |
Number built | 28,700 |
The Argus As 10 was a German-designed and built, air-cooled 90° cylinder bank-angle inverted V8 "low power" inline aircraft engine, used mainly in training aircraft such as the Arado Ar 66 and Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser and other small short-range reconnaissance and communications aircraft like the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch during, and shortly after World War II. It was first built in 1928.
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938.