Origin: Ernst Heinkel AG, also built in France on German account by SNCASO, built under licence by Fabrica de Avione SET, Romania, and CASA, Spain
Type: medium bomber, torpedo bomber, glider tug and missile launcher
Engine: (He 111H-3) two 1,200hp Jumo 211D-2 12-cylinder inverted-vee liquid-cooled, (He 111P-2) two 1,100hp Daimler-Benz DB 601A-1 12-cylinder inverted-vee liquid-cooled
Armament: (P-2) 7.92mm Rheinmetall MG 15 machine gun on manual mountings in nosecap, open dorsal position and ventral gondola; (H-3) same, plus fixed forward-firing MG 15 or 17, two MG 15's in waist windows and (usually) 20mm MG FF cannon in front of ventral gondola and (sometimes) fixed rear-firing MG 17 in extreme tail; internal bomb load up to 2,000kg in vertical cells, stored nose-up; external bomb load (at expense of internal) one 2,000kg on H-3 or two 500kg on others; later marks carried one or two 765kg torpedoes, Bv 246 glide missiles, Hs 293 rocket missiles, Fritz X radio-controlled glide bombs or one FZG-76 (V-1) cruise missile
Speed: maximum speed (H-3) 415km/h, (P-2) 390km/h at 5,000m (at maximum weight neither version could exceed 330km/h
Climb: climb to 4,500m in 30-35 minutes at normal gross weight, 50 minutes at maximum
Ceiling: service ceiling around 7,800m at normal gross weight, under 5,000m at maximum
Range: with maximum bomb load about 1,200km
Weight: empty (H-3) 7,720kg, (P-2) 8,000kg, maximum loaded (H-3) 14,000kg, (P-2) 13,500kg
Wingspan: (H-3) 22.6m
Length: (H-3) 16.4m
Height: (H-3) 4m
Crew: five/six
History: first flight (He 111V1 prototype) 24 February 1935, (pre-production He 111B-0) August 1936, (production He 111B-1) 30 October 1936, (first He 111E series) January 1938, (first production He 111P-1) December 1938, (He 111H-1) January or February 1939, final delivery (He 111H-23) October 1944, (Spanish C.2111) late 1956
Users: China, Germany (Luftwaffe, Lufthansa), Hungary, Iraq, Romania, Spain, Turkey

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