Caspar C 29

C 29
Role	Reconnaissance aircraft, mail plane
Manufacturer	Caspar-Werke
Designer	Reinhold Mewes
First flight	1926
Number built	1

The Caspar C 29 was a 2-seat floatplane mail carrier and reconnaissance developed in Germany, but built by Dansk Aero in Denmark in the mid-1920s.

Design and development

The C 29 was intended to take part in the 1926 Deutschen Seeflugwettbewerb at Warnemünde, but crashed a few days before the competition.^[1]

Specifications

Data from ^[2]

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Length: 9.98 m (32 ft 9 in)
• Wingspan: 13.00 m (42 ft 8 in)
• Height: 4.18 m (13 ft 9 in)
• Wing area: 47.44 m² (510.6 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 1,310 kg (2,888 lb)
• Gross weight: 2,000 kg (4,409 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 12Jb V-12 water-cooled piston engine, 280 kW (380 hp)
• Propellers: 2-bladed fixed pitch propeller

Performance

• Maximum speed: 200 km/h (120 mph, 110 kn)
• Cruise speed: 175 km/h (109 mph, 94 kn)
• Range: 700 km (430 mi, 380 nmi)

References

1. "Caspar C 29". Histaviation.com. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
2. "Caspar C 29". www.airwar.ru (in Russian). Moscow. Retrieved 26 February 2019.