The Udet U 11 Kondor was a German

Germany

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 four-engined airliner

Airliner

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 designed and built by Udet Flugzeugbau, only one was built.

Design and development

The U 11 Kondor was a high-wing monoplane

Monoplane

A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with one main set of wing surfaces, in contrast to a biplane or triplane. Since the late 1930s it has been the most common form for a fixed wing aircraft.-Types of monoplane:...

 powered by four 100 hp Siemens-Halske Sh 12

Siemens-Halske Sh 12

The Siemens-Halske Sh 12 was a nine-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft built in Germany in the 1920s. First run in 1925, it was rated at 80 kW .-Applications:* Albatros L 68* Albatros L 79* Arado S I* Arado W 2* BFW M.21...

 piston engines. It had a crew of three and room for eight passengers. The only U 11 was first flown on 19 January 1926 and was used by Deutsche Luft Hansa

Deutsche Luft Hansa

Deutsche Luft Hansa A.G. was a German airline, serving as flag carrier of the country during the later years of the Weimar Republic and throughout the Third Reich.-1920s:Deutsche Luft Hansa was founded on 6 January 1926 in Berlin...

. The cost to develop and produce the prototype was a factor in the collapse of the company which was then taken over by Bayerische Flugzeugwerke.