Focke-Wulf A 33 Sperber

The Focke-Wulf A 33 Sperber, the Sparrowhawk, was a small airliner produced in Germany in the early 1930s. It was a high-wing cantilever monoplane of conventional design that resembled a scaled-down version of the contemporary Focke-Wulf A 32 Bussard. Only three examples were built, and each was bought for air taxi duties with a different German airline. One of them briefly joined the fleet of Deutsche Luft Hansa in 1937. The type is a small footnote in the company output between the larger A 17 and A 32 airliners of the same period and the Kurt Tank designs that followed, but it shows how the firm tried to serve the market for light commercial passenger aircraft before the trainer and military programmes took over.