M 24 | |
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Role | Airliner |
National origin | Germany |
Manufacturer | Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW) |
Designer | Willy Messerschmitt |
First flight | 1929 |
Number built | 4 |
Developed from | Messerschmitt M 18, Messerschmitt M 20 |
The Messerschmitt M 24, otherwise known as the BFW M.24 was an airliner developed in Germany in the late 1920s[1] as a further development in the series of designs produced by Messerschmitt based on the M 18.[2] Like the M 18 and its follow-on, the M 20, it was a high-wing cantilever monoplane with a fully enclosed cabin and fixed tailwheel undercarriage. It was slightly smaller than the M 20, seating only eight passengers instead of the ten that could be carried by the previous aircraft.[2]
Two prototypes were initially built with BMW and Junkers inline engines, followed by two more with BMW-built Pratt & Whitney radials. However, Messerschmitt proved unable to sell the design, possibly due at least in part to the enmity of Deutsche Luft Hansa director Erhard Milch towards Messerschmitt.[3]
The first M 24a (Junkers engined, registered D-1767) was used commercially from 1930 by Nordbayerische Verkersflug on the Dresden-Chemnitz-Plauen-Nuremberg route until it was lost in 1934.[4]
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