Junkers Ju 160

The Junkers Ju 160 was a single-engined, low-wing, all-metal passenger aircraft built by Junkers as a faster airliner derived from the unsuccessful Ju 60. Designed from 1934, it competed in the fast airliner market with the Heinkel He 70 Blitz and the Lockheed Model 9 Orion. It had a new tapered wing, a more powerful BMW 132A radial engine, a cleaner exterior with smooth metal skin and an inward-retracting undercarriage, and it seated six passengers with a pilot and a radio operator in an enclosed cockpit. Including prototypes, 47 were built. Deutsche Luft Hansa operated at least 20, starting civil service in 1935 on domestic routes and on international routes such as Breslau to Prague, and kept some on its fast Berlin to Vienna route until 1941. After the war began the Luftwaffe impressed most German examples for communication and training.