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)

Bachem

(Bachem-Werke GmbH)

Blohm & Voss

BMW

(Bayerische Motoren-Werke GmbH)

Daimler-Benz

(Daimler-Benz)

Dornier

(Dornier Werke GmbH)

DFS

(Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug)

Fieseler

(Gerhard Fieseler Werke GmbH)

Flettner

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

Focke-Achgelis

(Focke-Achgelis & Co. GmbH)

Focke-Wulf

(Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH)

Gotha

( Gothaer Waggonfabrik)

Heinkel

(Ernst Heinkel A.G.)

Henschel

(Henschel Flugzeugwerke A.G.)

Horten

Hütter

(Ulrich Hütter and Wolfgang Hütter)

Junkers

(Junkers Flugzeug-Werke A.G.)

Lippisch

Messerschmitt

Sack

Schempp-Hirth

Škoda-Kauba

Sombold

Stöckel

Weser

Zeppelin