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Dornier Do 335
Variants

Built:
  • Do 335 A-0: 10 pre-production aircraft.
  • Do 335 A-1: Single-seat fighter-bomber aircraft.

Proposed
  • Do 335 A-2: single-seat fighter-bomber aircraft with new weapon aiming systems, later proposed longer wing and updated DB603L engines of at least 1,471 kW (2,000 PS) output apiece.
  • Do 335 A-3: single-seat reconnaissance aircraft built from A-1 aircraft, later proposed with longer wing.
  • Do 335 A-4: single-seat reconnaissance aircraft with smaller cameras than the A-3
  • Do 335 A-5: single-seat night fighter aircraft, later night and bad weather fighter with enlarged wing and DB603L engines.
  • Do 335 A-6: two-seat night fighter aircraft, with completely separate second cockpit located above and behind the original.
  • Do 335 A-7: A-6 with longer wing.
  • Do 335 A-8: A-4 fitted with longer wing.
  • Do 335 A-9: A-4 fitted with longer wing, DB603L engines and pressurized cockpit.
  • Do 335 B-1: abandoned in development.
  • Do 335 B-2: single-seat destroyer aircraft. Fitted with 2 additional MK 103 in the wings and two 300 litre (80 US gal) drop tanks.
  • Do 335 B-3: updated B-1 but with longer wing.
  • Do 335 B-4: update of the B-1 with longer wing, DB603L engine.
  • Do 335 B-6: night fighter.
  • Do 335 B-12: dual-seat trainer version for the B-series aircraft.
  • Do 435: a Do 335 with the redesigned, longer wing. Allied intelligence reports from early May 1945 mention spotting a Do 435 at the Dornier factory airfield at Lowenthal.
  • Do 535: actually the He 535, once the Dornier P254 design was handed over to Heinkel in October 1944; fitted with jet engine in place of rear piston engine
  • Do 635: twin-fuselaged long-range reconnaissance version. Also called Junkers Ju 635 or Do 335Z. Mock up only.
  • Do P 256: turbojet nightfighter version, with two podded HeS 011 turbojet engines, based on Do 335 airframe.

Sources:
Gunston, Bill & Wood, Tony - Hitler's Luftwaffe, 1977, Salamander Books Ltd., London
Wikipedia - Dornier Do 335
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