Type 4-seat flying boat and amphibie
Engine 2 Argus as 10E
Dimensions Length (waterline) 7.00 m, span 15.20 m, wheelbase 4.50 m, wing area 27.3 m2
Weights Empty 2304 kg,  load 596 kg, flying weight  2900 kg
Performance Max. speed  233 km/h, climb at sea level 4.0 m7sec., to 1000 m 4.8 min., landing speed 115 km/h, service ceiling 3400 m, requred distance for take off ~ 900 m
Type Werk.Nr Registration History
V1 D-ORBE First flight 26/6 1939 (Pilot Gerhard Hubrich), toal 5 flights this day. Two days later the first from the see. Another 19 flights before the Sept. 1939. Modified to protect the propellers from water, the floats and the fuselage were equipped with deflectors. After more than 60 flights, the aircraft was given to the Erprobungsstelle See at Travemünde 1/5 1942
This amphibious flying boat was produced in 1938 by the German aviation company Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH. The aircraft was a twin engine, all-metal transport with a cantilever high wing. Its wheels retracted into wells in its outrigger floats, vertically braced under the engines. Testing began in 1938 but the We 271 first flew, as a landplane on June 26, 1939 and as a flying boat two days later. In the spring of 1940 it was flown to the testing centre at Rechlin but the next year it was shot down by a Spitfire and was scrapped later in the war.