Luftwaffe Aircraft Blueprint Sheet for the Prototype Focke-Wulf Fw 300

The Focke-Wulf Fw 300 was a proposed very-long-range civil airliner, transport, reconnaissance aircraft and anti-ship aircraft, designed by Focke-Wulf in 1941 and 1942. The design was intended to replace the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 “Condor”. The document bears the title of “Flugzeugtypenblatt” (“Aircraft Type Sheet”) and includes the printed designation of “Geheime Kommandosache (“Secret Command Matter”). This diagram sheet was one of a large group of such blueprints of aircraft, including prototype and experimental aircraft, that were seized at the office of Reichmarshal Hermann Goring at the German experimental weapons testing and launching site at Peenemunde. They were found and taken by a U.S. Navy officer who was later with the Technical Intelligence Liaison Unit of the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics. Included in this listing is a photograph of a portion of a card that was affixed to the file folder containing the blueprints and identifying their origin. This card is not included with the blueprint.