In Service: 1937 to 1945
First Flight: 1937
Manufacturer: Arado
Number built: 593
Type: Seaplane reconnaissance
Crew: 2 men
Length: 11 m
Wingspan: 12.4 m
Wing area: 28.4 m²
Height: 4.45 m
Empty: 2,990 kg
Loaded: 3,730 kg
Engine: 1 ×
Siemens
Bramo 323 9 cylinder radial engine producing up to 830
hp
Maximum speed: 310 km/h
Range: 1,070 km
Service ceiling: 7,000 m
Armament:
1 ×
7.92 mm
MG 15 machine gun
2 ×
7.92 mm
MG 17 machine guns in the rear cockpit
2 ×
20 mm MG
FF cannons in the wings
Bomb load up to 2 × 50 kg
Electronics:
Operators: Luftwaffe, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania
Variants:
Ar 196 V-1
Ar 196 V-2
Ar 196 V-3
Ar 196 V-4
Ar 196A
Ar 196 A-1
Ar 196 A-2
Ar 196 A-3
Ar 196 A-4
Ar 196 A-5
Other: Seaplanes
& Flying boats
Articles:
In 1936, the German air ministry (RLM) issued a specification
for a catapult floatplane to replace the
Heinkel
He 50, the requirement was for a two seat single or twin
floatplane aircraft powered by a single engined, producing
up to 800 to 900 hp range. There were two competing versions
one from
Kurt
Tank from
Focke-Wulf
who chose the conservative approach, in attempting to fulfil
the requirement, which ended in
Focke-Wulf
Fw 62 being an orthodox biplane, but the
Arado
team decided to adopt a monoplane configuration for it's competing
design the Arado Ar 196 both designs underwent extensive evaluation
and in the end the Arado Ar 196 was accepted and used extensively
by the Kriegsmarine as a reconnaissance aircraft and operated
from the
Graf
Spee,
Lützow,
Prinz
Eugen,
Gneisenau,
Scharnhorst,
Admiral
Scheer,
Tirpitz,
and
Bismarck
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
