The aircraft in this list include prototype versions of aircraft used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and unfinished wartime experimental programmes. In the former, development can stretch back to the 1920s and in the latter the project must have started between 1939-1945.

Legitimacy of German projects

After the surrender of Nazi Germany several of the secret or unfinished projects of German military aircraft gained wide publicity. Also certain postwar planes such as the Bell X-5, F-86 Sabre or the MiG-15 were deemed to have been based on the pioneering work of World War II German aircraft designers. German aircraft manufacturers such as Henschel in Kassel had their archives destroyed in the course of the Allied bombing of the Third Reich at the end of World War II. Hence some of the late Henschel projects that were recreated later are based on documents found in other locations or on second-hand sources and not on the original Henschel technical drawings.

Arado

(Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH)

  • Arado Ar 198
  • Arado Ar 240
  • Arado Ar 532 - planned enlarged four-engine version of Ar 432
  • Arado Ar 632 - planned enlarged four-engine version of Ar 432
  • Arado E.300
  • Blohm & Voss P 190 - Single seat jet fighter
  • Blohm & Voss P 211.02 - 1944 Volksjäger project submission,

BMW

(Bayerische Motoren-Werke GmbH)

  • BMW Flugelrad
  • BMW Strahlbomber I

Flettner

(Flettner Flugzeugbau GmbH / Anton Flettner G.m.b.H.)

  • Flettner Fl 184 night reconnaissance/ASW autogyro
  • Flettner Fl 185 gyrodyne
  • Flettner Fl 265 experimental helicopter
  • Flettner Fl 339 Reconnaissance helicopter

Focke-Achgelis

(Focke-Achgelis & Co. GmbH)

  • Focke-Achgelis Fa 224 paper-only sports version of Focke-Wulf Fw 61
  • Focke-Achgelis Fa 225 rotary wing assault glider prototype
  • Focke-Achgelis Fa 269 tiltrotor VTOL aircraft
  • Focke-Wulf Project II (Entwurf II, Nr. 264) - jet fighter design study
  • Henschel Projekt P.72
  • Junkers EF 074 design designation of Ju 288
  • Junkers EF 077 Airliner project developed into Ju 252
  • Messerschmitt P.1091 - project for a high-altitude fighter which later became the Blohm und Voss Bv 155
  • Messerschmitt P.1092 - series of experimental aircraft
  • Messerschmitt P.1095 - planned multirole aircraft using Me 262 and Me 309 components

Weser

  • Weserflug Bf 163
  • Weserflug P.1003 - tilt-rotor aircraft project