Fieseler Fi 167

The Fieseler Fi 167 was a 1930s German biplane torpedo and reconnaissance bomber designed for the Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carriers. The Reich Aviation Ministry issued the carrier-based torpedo bomber specification in early 1937 to Fieseler and Arado, and by mid-1938 the Fieseler design proved superior to the Arado Ar 195. It exceeded the requirements and, like the Fi 156 Storch, could fly very slowly and land almost vertically on a moving carrier. It had a Daimler-Benz DB 601B engine of 820 kW and a two-man crew. Two prototypes and twelve pre-production aircraft were built. With the carrier unfinished, the aircraft served in German test units, were sold to Croatia in 1943, and supplied besieged Croatian garrisons in 1944. No examples are known to have survived.