Focke-Wulf Ta 254

The Focke-Wulf Ta 254 was a proposed German development of the Ta 154 fighter that Focke-Wulf would have produced. It would have been a high-wing monoplane with retractable tricycle landing gear, powered by two piston engines, either the Daimler-Benz DB 603E, the Daimler-Benz DB 603L or the Junkers Jumo 213E. The main difference from the Ta 154 was to have been long-span wings, and both day and night fighter variants were intended. The Ta 154 itself was cancelled after bonding problems with its wooden structure and the bombing of the only factory making its adhesive, so the Ta 254 remained a paper project, recorded here for completeness of the Focke-Wulf night fighter line that ran from the Ta 154 Moskito.