Fieseler Fi 253

The Fieseler Fi 253 Spatz, English Sparrow, was a light civilian aircraft made by the German company Fieseler in Nazi Germany, of which only six were produced because of the Second World War. It came out of a January 1937 instruction from Major Werner Junck of the Reich Aviation Ministry, who told several aircraft makers that they would receive no more military development contracts and should instead build a Volksflugzeug, a people aircraft. The Fi 253 was developed alongside similar designs such as the Klemm Kl 105, Si 202, Bu 180 and Go 150. It was a single-seat machine that could carry one passenger, with a 37 kW Zundapp four-cylinder inline engine, a wingspan of 11 m and a top speed of 140 km/h.