Messerschmitt M 35

The Messerschmitt M 35, also called the BFW M.35, was a German sports plane of the early 1930s and the last of the line of sports planes designed by Willy Messerschmitt, which began with the single-seat M.17 and M.19 and continued with the two-seat M.23, M.27 and M.31. It was a single-engine low-wing cantilever monoplane with open cockpits and a fixed undercarriage, keeping the extended fuselage of the M.27 and adding a single-leg spatted undercarriage. The M.35a had a 150 hp Siemens Sh 14a seven-cylinder radial and was the faster, and the M.35b a four-cylinder inverted inline Argus As 8b. The aircraft first flew in 1933 and was shown at the 1934 Aerosalon in Geneva. Rudolf Hess won the Zugspitz trophy in an M.35 in 1934, and Wilhelm Stoer won the German Aerobatic Championship in an M.35b in 1934 and 1935. Only 15 were built.