Arado Ar 196

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Arado Ar 196A-5 Werknummer 623183, one of the two aircraft taken from the German cruiser Prinz Eugen after the Second World War, as displayed outdoors for many years at Naval Air Station Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, in a post-war repaint coded ‘GA+DX’: a two-seat Kriegsmarine catapult reconnaissance floatplane with a BMW 132K nine-cylinder radial driving a three-bladed propeller, a long glazed canopy over pilot and observer, a low wing spanning 12.4 m and two main floats on N struts with a V spreader under the fuselage, shown level on its floats: dark green overall, floats and undersides included, a red spinner and black propeller, a red shield with a white sea-horse badge behind the cowling on the port side, ‘GA+DX’ and the Balkenkreuz on the fuselage sides and crosses above and below the wings (shape from an Ar 196A three-view scaled to the published span and length, checked against a second three-view and photographs of this aircraft). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 351 models · download .glb (1.1 MB) · Plate 112 in The Hangar