Arado Ar 440

Prototype

Service Data

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Production Data

First Flight:
Manufacturer: Arado
Number built: 4

Technical Data

Type: Prototype heavy fighter

Crew: 2 men
Length: 14.3 m
Wingspan: 16.3 m
Wing area: m²
Height: 4 m
Empty: 9,200 kg
Loaded: 12,21 kg
Engine: 2 × Daimler-Benz DB 603G 12 cylinder liquid cooled supercharged inverted Vee piston engine producing up to1,900 hp each
Maximum speed: 747 km/h
Range: 2,700 km
Service ceiling:
Armament:
2 × 30 mm MK 108 cannon
2 × 20 mm MG 151/20 machine guns firing forward
2 × 13 mm MG 131 machine guns in the upper fuselage
1 × 20 mm gun MG 151/20 machine gun fixed at the back
Bomb load up to
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Operators: Luftwaffe
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Other: Prototypes
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History

The Arado Ar 440 was a twin engines multi purpose heavy fighter aircraft based on the Ar 240 only four prototypes built

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Sources

The Warplanes of the Third Reich.
ISBN-10: 0385057822

German Aircraft of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0370000242

Hitler's Luftwaffe.
ISBN-10: 051718771X

For a complete list of sources