Arado AR 195 and AR 197

Arado AR 195 and AR 197

Photo 1 is an AR195, a shipboard torpedo bomber and reconnaissance aircraft.
Photo 2 is an AR197, the last fighter bi-plane built in Germany.

Two b/w photographs on an album page

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ARADO AR 195.

The AR 195 was designed as a shipboard torpedo-bomber & reconnaissance aircraft for operation from ‘Carrier A’, the keel of which had been laid shortly before the issue of the shipboard aircraft specification. Only three prototypes were built. Powered by one BMW 132X radila [sic] engine. Armament, one forward firing fixed 7.9 MG 15 mahine [sic] gun, and one flexible in the rear cockpit. Maximum speed 180 mph.

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Arado AR 197.

The AR 197 was the first prototype of what was destined to be the last fighter bi-plane designed & built in Germany. The AR 197 was evolved to meet a requirement for a shipboard fighter. Shortly after it commenced its flight test programme at Travemunde the Germans became aware of the development of shipboard fighter monoplanes abroad & further work on the Arado fighter was abandoned.