Messerschmitt M 27

The Messerschmitt M 27, also called the BFW M.27, was a German two-seat sports plane with a low cantilever wing, open cockpits and a fixed undercarriage, sold in small numbers at the start of the 1930s. It belonged to the series of low-wing sports monoplanes that Willy Messerschmitt produced at Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, the M.19, M.23, M.27, M.31 and M.35, of which only the M.23 sold in much more than double figures. The M.27 was very similar to the M.23b but had a more rounded fin and rudder, a fuselage stretched by about 1,400 mm to take luggage and a new spatted undercarriage, with pilot and passenger seated in tandem. It was raced successfully, winning the Deutschland Competition in 1932 and taking second place in the Zugspitz Circuit in 1933. The M.27a used a Siemens Sh 12 radial or an Argus As 8B inline engine, and the M.27b an Argus As 8R.