| Type | Single seat fighter |
| Engine | 1 Napier Sabre IIB H-24 with 4-bladed de Havilland Hydromatic, 4.3 m diameter constant-speed propeller |
| Dimensions | Length 10,26 m , height 4,52 m , span 12,50 m, wing area 28,1 m2 . Airfoil: root: Hawker H.14/14/37.5 ; tip: Hawker H.14/10/37.5 (maximum thickness at 37.5% chord) |
| Weights | Empty , loaded 5171 kg , max. take off weight , fuel internal 730 l, oil 73 l |
| Performance | Max.. speed 700 km/h at 5200 m, cruising speed , range 680 km, endurance , service ceiling 11100 m , climb 24 m/sec., to 6100 m 6 min. |
| Armament | 4 20 mm Mark II Hispano cannon, 200 rpg. with 2 230 kg or 450 kg bombs |
| Type | Werk.Nr | Registration | History |
| Mark Vb | EJ709 | T9+ | Hawker Tempest Mk. V with serial number EJ709 was delivered to 274 Sqn at B.82 Grove, Holland, in October 1944. On 15 October F/O George Taylor Kinnelll (RNZAF) flew an armed reconnaissance mission over Münster in EJ709. At circa 11.35 he was hit by flak and crashlanded at Nieukerk (5 miles S/W Wageningen). F/O Kinnell survived the crashlanding and was taken Prisoner of War. The aircraft was salvaged by 2./Versuchsverband O.K.L. and ferried to Finow. The damaged was estimated to 15 %. At Finow, the Tempest was repaired with parts of a Tempest which was shot down at Thiene near Hesepe on 29 December 1944. The repair of EJ709 was finished on 4 January 1945. Hans Werner Lerche, a Rechlin test pilot, ferried the Tempest to Rechlin at the end of January. In his book "Luftwaffe Test Pilot: Flying Captured Allied Aircraft of World War 2" he writes about testing Tempest EJ709. Because of problems with the engine the testing was fraught with problems. But Lerche made test flights with the Tempest at Rechlin still in mid-April 1945. The fate of EJ709 is not known. |
