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: We
spent five days in the Deutschland I
commanded the captured City of Flint 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 
