Focke-Wulf A 17 Möwe

The Focke-Wulf A 17 Möwe, the Gull, was an airliner and the first large commercial aircraft of Focke-Wulf. It was developed in the late 1920s to be a competitive civil aircraft with minimal production cost and high load-carrying capacity. The result was a conventional high-wing cantilever monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage, a steel tube airframe covered in fabric except for plywood wings, fully enclosed seating for up to eight passengers and a fully enclosed cockpit for two pilots. It first flew in 1927 and entered revenue service several months later. Only limited numbers were built, most of them for Deutsche Luft Hansa, and some served as experimental aircraft, including two used to test the Junkers Jumo 5 diesel engine. All A 17s were withdrawn from use in the later 1930s.