In Service: 4 November 1937
                    
                    
                    
                    First Flight: 4 November 1937
                    
Manufacturer: Fieseler 
                    
                    Number built: 6
                    
                    
                    
                    Type: Prototype reconnaissance, transport
                    
                    
Crew: 1 man
                    
Length: 7.25 m
                    
Wingspan: 11 m
                    
Wing area: 16 m²
                    
Height: 2.3 m
                    
Empty: 295 kg 
                    
Loaded: 500 kg 
                    
Engine: 1 × 
Zündapp 
                    Z 9-092 4 cylinder air cooled over head vavle engine producing 
                    up to 60 hp
                    
Maximum speed: 140 km/h
                    
Range: 450 km 
                    
Service ceiling: m
                    
Armament: 
                    Bomb load up to 
                    
Electronics: 
                    Operators: Luftwaffe
                    
Variants: 
                    
                    Other: Prototypes
                    Articles: 
                    
                    
                    
                    The Fieseler Fi 253 Spatz (Sparrow) was a two seat single 
                    engine reconnaissance and transport aircraft only six prototypes 
                    built
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    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