Heinkel He 62

The Heinkel He 62 was a reconnaissance seaplane designed in Germany in the early 1930s. It was a conventional single-bay biplane with unstaggered wings of equal span, the pilot and gunner sitting in tandem in open cockpits. A few aircraft were supplied to Japan, where Aichi built a version as the AB-5 and used it as the basis for the AB-6, but no series production took place. The AB-5 used a locally produced Nakajima Kotobuki engine in place of the Siemens engine fitted to the German-built aircraft. The German-built He 62 had a wingspan of 11.7 metres and a Siemens-built Bristol Jupiter engine of 336 kilowatts, giving a maximum speed of 235 kilometres per hour.