Focke-Wulf A 32 Bussard

The Focke-Wulf A 32 Bussard, the Buzzard, was a small airliner produced in Germany in the early 1930s. It was developed quickly at the request of the airline NOBA after Messerschmitt could not deliver aircraft on schedule. The design was based closely on the Focke-Wulf A 20 but had a revised fuselage with greater seating capacity and an engine of more than twice the power. The enclosed flight deck sat below and ahead of the high-mounted thick wing, with the passenger cabin under and behind the wing, and the tailskid undercarriage used a wider main wheel track braced by struts to the wing undersides. A nose-mounted piston engine was cooled by a radiator under the flight deck. The two aircraft that NOBA operated joined the Deutsche Luft Hansa fleet in 1934.