Fieseler Fi 156 Storch facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Fieseler Fi 156 Storch

Fieseler Fi 156 in flight.
Role	Light support aircraft
National origin	Nazi Germany.
Manufacturer	Fieseler
First flight	1936
Introduction	1937
Status	Out of service
Primary user	Luftwaffe
Number built	2900 examples

The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch is a light single-engine twin-seat aircraft. It was built in Nazi Germany for Luftwaffe. It was used as light liaisons and communication duties in World War II. Some were used for reconnaissance. After the war it was built under licence in France as Morane Saulnier MS-500 Criquet.

Images for kids

Fi 156 in flight
Morane-Saulnier MS.505 Criquet
Slepcev Storch
The Storch involved in Mussolini's rescue in the Gran Sasso raid.
Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst and his Storch, Italy, 1943
An Austrian-registered Storch fitted with spraying equipment at Stuttgart Airport in 1965
Spanish Air Force Fi 156 and Argus As 10 engine at the Museo del Aire in Madrid
Swedish Air Force S14 (Fi 156)
A captured German Fieseler Fi 156C-3/Trop Storch (ex "NM+ZS"), WkNr. 5620.
Morane-Saulnier MS.502 Criquet, Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina, 2012
Fi 156 at Museum of Military History, Vienna, Austria.
Fi 156 displayed in the Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleissheim
Yugoslav Air Force K-65 at Belgrade Aviation Museum, Serbia.
A privately owned MS.500 flying at the Wings Over Houston airshow, October 2019.