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DFS 331
Germany · WWII (1939–1945)
After the success of the 1940 airborne assaults involving the DFS 230, the Reichsluftfahrtministerium invited the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug/DFS and Gotha to submit plans for a larger capacity glider. The result was the DFS 231, a twenty-seat troop designed by Hans Jacobs, who had previously produced the successful, nine seat DFS 230.
Specifications
- Category
- Fixed Wing
- Domain
- Defence
- Era
- WWII (1939–1945)
- Country
- Germany
- Length (ft)
- 52
- Wingspan (ft)
- 75
- Empty Weight (lb)
- 5004
- MTOW (lb)
- 10516
- Max Speed (mph)
- 205
- Armament
- Guns: 2x MG 15 machine-guns