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Den Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann was a two-seater, single-engine aerobatic monoplane aircraft built by Bücker Flugzeugbau GmbH in Rangsdorf, near Berlin and extensively used by the Luftwaffe in World War II. The Bü 181 was also built by Zliner Flugzeugwerke AG plant at Zlin, i Böhmen & Mähren-protektoratet och efter det tyska tillbakadragandet fortsatte produktionen efter kriget i samma Zlin-verk, nu denominerade som C.6 och C.106 för det tjeckoslovakiska flygvapnet och som Zlín Z.281 och Z.381 i olika versioner för civilt bruk. 783 flygplan byggdes. Mellan 1943 och 1945 byggde Hägglund & Söner AB i Sverige 120 Bü 181 på licens med den svenska militära beteckningen Sk 25.

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Den Bücker Bü 181 var ett tyskt skolflygplan som flög första gången i februari 1939. Den designades av Bücker Flugzeugbau, ett företag som grundades av Carl Clemens Bücker, en före detta sjöofficer och flygentusiast. Bü 181 fick namnet Bestmann, som betyder "jungman" på tyska, och var tänkt att vara ett enkelt och pålitligt flygplan för grundläggande flygutbildning och konstflygning.
The Bü 181 had a low-wing monoplane configuration with a fixed undercarriage and a side-by-side seating arrangement for two occupants. The fuselage was partly made of steel tubes and partly of wood, while the wings and tail were of wooden construction covered with fabric. The aircraft was powered by a Hirth HM 500A or B engine, a four-cylinder inverted air-cooled engine that produced 105 horsepower. The Bü 181 had a maximum speed of 215 km/h and a range of 800 km.
Den Bü 181 was widely used by the Luftwaffe during World War II, as well as by other countries such as Czechoslovakia, Egypt and Sweden. The Luftwaffe ordered more than 3,000 Bü 181s, but due to high demand, the production was also licensed to Fokker in the Netherlands and Zlin in Czechoslovakia. After the war, the production continued in Czechoslovakia as the Zlin Z-281 and Z-381, and in Egypt as the Heliopolis Gomhouriya. The Bü 181 was also exported to several countries in Europe, Africa and Asia, and some examples are still flying today as vintage aircraft.