Origin: Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, renamed Messerschmitt AG in 1938 widely diepersed manufacture
Type: and nightfighter (also used on occasion for close support and reconnaissance)
Engine: two 1,100hp Daimler-Benz DB 601A, (later C-4s) 1,200hp DB 601N 12-cylinder inverted-vee liquid cooled, (G, H) two 1,475hp DB 605B, same layout
Armament: two 20mm Oerlikon MG FF cannon and four Rheinmetall 7.92mm MG 17 machine guns fixed firring forward in nose, one 7.92mm MG 15 manually aimed machine gun in rear cockpit; C-4/B also fitted with racks under center section for four 250kg bombs; (G-4 nightfighter) two 30mm MK 108 and two 20mm MG 151 firing forward, and two MG 151 in Schr�ge Musik installation firing obliquely upwards (sometimes two 7.92mm MG 81 in rear cockpit)
Speed: maximum speed 562km/h at 7,000km
Climb: 8 minutes to 5,500m
Ceiling: service ceiling 10,000m
Range: 850km at 490km/h at 5,000m
Weight: empty 4,500kg, loaded 7,000kg
Wingspan: 16.25m
Length: 12.1m
Height: 3.5m
Crew: two
History: first flight (Bf 110V1 prototype) 12 May 1936, (pre-production Bf 110C-0) February 1939, operational service with Bf 110C-1 April 1939, final run-down of production (Bf 110H-2 and H-4) February 1945
Users: Germany (Luftwaffe)

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