In Service: 1936 to 1945
                    
                    
                    
                    First Flight: 1936
                    
Manufacturer: Fieseler
                    Number built: 2,000 to 3,000
                    
                    
                    
                    Type: Reconnaissance
                    
                    
Crew: 2 men
                    
Length: 9.9 m
                    
Wingspan: 14.25 m
                    
Wing area: 26 m²
                    
Height: 3 m
                    
Empty: 930 kg
                    
Loaded: 1,320 kg
                    
Engine: 1 × 
Argus 
                    As 10C 8 cylinder air cooled 90º inverted Vee piston 
                    engine producing up to 240 hp
                    
Maximum speed: 175 km/h
                    
Range: 385 km
                    
Service ceiling: 4,600 m
                    
Armament: 
                    1 × 
7.92 mm 
                    MG 15 mounted in the rear of the cabin
                    none
                    
Electronics: 
					Operators: Luftwaffe, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, 
                    Italy Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA, 
                    USSR, 
                    
Variants: 
                    Fi 156 V-1
                    Fi 156 V-2
                    Fi 156 V-3
                    Fi 156 V-4
                    Fi 156 V-5
                    Fi 156 A-0
                    Fi 156 A-1
                    Fi 156B
                    Fi 156C 
                    
Fi 156 C-1
                    Fi 156 C-2
                    Fi 156 C-3
                    Fi 156 C-3/Trop
                    Fi 156 C-4 not built
                    Fi 156 C-5
                    Fi 156 C-5/Trop
                    Fi 156 D-0
                    Fi 156 D-1
                    Fi 156 E-0
                    
                    
Other: Reconnaissance
                    Articles: 
                    
                    
                    
                    The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (Stork) was a STOL reconnaissance 
                    aircraft 
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    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