Hamburger Flugzeugbau Ha 137

Ha 137
Ha 137 V5
General information
TypeDive bomber
ManufacturerHamburger Flugzeugbau
Number built6
History
Manufactured1935–1937
First flight18 January 1935

The Hamburger Flugzeugbau Ha 137 was a German ground-attack aircraft of the 1930s. It was Blohm & Voss' entry into the contest to equip the re-forming Luftwaffe with its first purpose-built dive bomber. Although the contest would eventually be won by the Junkers Ju 87, the Ha 137 demonstrated that B&V's Hamburger Flugzeugbau, not even two years old at this point, had a truly capable design team of its own. One Ha 137 single-seat prototype competed against the Henschel Hs 123 at Rechlin.