As 10 | |
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Argus As 10 installed in a Fieseler Storch at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford | |
Type | Piston aircraft engine |
Manufacturer | Argus Motoren |
First run | 1928 |
Major applications | Fieseler Fi 156 Storch Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun |
Number built | 28,700 |
The Argus As 10 was a German-designed and built, air-cooled 90° cylinder bank-angle inverted V8 "low power" aircraft engine, used mainly in training aircraft such as the Arado Ar 66 and Focke-Wulf Fw 56 Stösser and other small short-range reconnaissance and communications aircraft like the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch during, and shortly after World War II. It was first built in 1928.[1]