Messerschmitt
Aircraft

Messerschmitt

Section Title: Aircraft
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Model	Name	First flight	Remarks

M17	January, 1925	sports aircraft

M18	1926	passenger transport

M19	1927	sports aircraft

M20	1928	passenger transport

M21	1928	prototype biplane trainer

M22	1928	prototype biplane medium bomber

M23	early 1928	sports aircraft

M24	1929	passenger transport

M25	not built	sports aircraft

M26	1930	prototype light aircraft

M27	1930	sports aircraft

M28	January, 1931	prototype mail-plane

M29	1932	sports/racing aircraft

M31	1932	sports aircraft

M35	1933	sports aircraft developed from M23

M36	1934	passenger transport

Bf 108	Taifun (Typhoon)	1934	trainer & transport

Bf 109	September, 1935	fighter, bomber interceptor; later versions sometimes mistakenly marked as "Me 109" on subcontractor's dataplates

Bf 110	12 May, 1936	twin-engine heavy fighter, night fighter

Me 155	not built	high-altitude fighter, developed from Bf 109; not built, project transferred to Blohm + Voss as the Bv 155

Bf 161	1938	reconnaissance aircraft; prototype

Bf 162	Jaguar	1937	schnellbomber (fast bomber) based on Bf 110

Bf 163	19 February, 1938	STOL reconnaissance aircraft; prototype built by Weserflug AG, lost military contact to Fieseler Fi 156 Storch

Me 163	Komet (Comet)	early 1941	rocket-powered interceptor

Bf 165	1937	long-range bomber project

Me 208	improved and enlarged version of Bf 108

Me 209	1 August, 1938	designed to break world air speed record; attempted fighter conversion failed

Me 209-II	1943	fighter; update to Bf 109, never produced

Me 210	September, 1939	twin-engine heavy fighter; also used for reconnaissance

Me 261	Adolfine	1941	designed as long-range record-setter; three built and used for reconnaissance

Me 262	Schwalbe (Swallow)	18 July, 1942	twin-engine fighter & attack aircraft; first operational jet-powered fighter

Me 263	never flown	rocket-powered interceptor; advanced development of Me 163

Me 264	Amerika (America)	23 December, 1942	strategic bomber, developed under Amerika Bomber program in competition against Ju 390 and unbuilt He 277

Me 265	not built	attack aircraft, proposed

Me 309	July, 1942	fighter; advanced but underperforming design meant to replace Bf 109

Me 310	1 built	pressurized Me 210 development, proposed

Me 321	7 March, 1941	large transport glider

Me 323	Gigant (Giant)	Fall, 1941	large transport aircraft; powered development of Me 321

Me 328	Fall, 1943	pulsejet-powered selbstopfer or parasite fighter

Me 329	not built	heavy fighter-bomber; unpowered glider only

Me 334	tailless fighter, similar to Me 163 (development abandoned)

Me 362	3-turbojet passenger aircraft (development abandoned)

Me 409	High-altitude fighter project; evolved into Bv 155

Me 410	Hornisse (Hornet)	1943	twin-engine heavy fighter and fast bomber; development of Me 210

Me 509	not built	fighter, based on Me 309, with engine located behind cockpit as in P-39 Airacobra

Me 510	twin-engine fighter-bomber (not built)

Me 609	heavy fighter; combined two Me 309 fuselages into one airframe, as with Bf 109Z and Me 409 (development abandoned)

P.08-01	not flown	prototype

P.1079	not flown	1939 long-range pusher bomber design

P.1092	not flown	prototype

P.1095	not flown	prototype multi-role aircraft

P.1099	not flown	prototype multi-role aircraft, intended improvement of Me 262

P.1100	not flown	tactical bomber design

P.1101	not flown	prototype swing-wing jet interceptor; later inspired Bell X-5

P.1102	not flown	swing wing bomber/heavy fighter

P.1103	not flown	rocket-powered interceptor

P.1104	not flown	rocket-powered interceptor

P.1106	not flown	intended improvement of P.1101

P.1107	not flown	jet bomber design

P.1109	not flown	oblique wing fighter design

P.1110	not flown	high altitude interceptor prototype

P.1111	not flown	fighter/interceptor prototype

P.1112	not flown	prototype tailless jet fighter; later inspired Vought F7U Cutlass

Sentence(s)

Messerschmitt produced the first operational jet fighter, the Me 262 Schwalbe ("Swallow").

final_sentence: Messerschmitt produced the first operational jet fighter, the Me 262 Schwalbe ("Swallow").