181 B-1 With Hirth HM 500 A engine Bü 181 B-2 As B-1 but no electrics Bü 181 B-3 (Schlachtflugzeug): Night harassment version made from converted B-1s and C-1s carrying improved instrumentation, Revi gunsights and three ETC 50 bomb racks. Bomb loads; either three SC50 or three SD50 or three SD70 or three AB70 droppable clusters. Max. Bomb load . Bü 181 C-1 Increased range and Hirth HM 500B engine. Bü 181 C-2 As C-1 but no electrics Bü 181 C-3 (Panzerjäger): B-2 or C-2 subtypes modified for the antitank role carrying four wing mounted Panzerfaust 100 single-use antitank grenade launchers in pairs, two on each wing. Post war license built & developments Zlín Z.181 Two-seat primary trainer aircraft. Czech production version of the Bu 181, built by Zlín in Czechoslovakia after the war. Zlín Z.281 Two-seat primary trainer aircraft, powered by a Toma 4 piston engine. Zlín Z.381 Two-seat primary trainer aircraft, powered by a Walter Minor piston engine. Czech Air Force designation C-106. Gomhouria Mk 1 Two-seat primary trainer aircraft, powered by a Walter Minor piston engine. Egyptian production version of the Zlín 381, built under licence in Egypt by the Heliopolis Aircraft Works. Gomhouria Mk 2 Two-seat primary trainer aircraft, powered by a 145 hp (108 kW) Continental C-145 piston engine. Gomhouria Mk 3 As Mk. 2, but with improved undercarriage. Gomhouria Mk 4 Increased fuel capacity. Gomhouria Mk 5 Similar to Mk 1, powered by Walter Minor, but with different engine mounting. Gomhouria Mk 6 Continental O-300 engine. Sk 25 Swedish Air Force designation of the license-built Bestmann. Surviving aircraft Of the over 4,000 Bü 181s originally built, only about 10 examples remain. One restored example of a Gomhouria 181 MK6 in Luftwaffe markings, registration G-TPWX, is known to be airworthy and in flying condition and can regularly be seen airborne over the Welland Valley in South Leicestershire, UK, usually with a chase plane. However a good number of license-built Sk 25s fly still today, as well as some Zlin examples and an increasing number of Egyptian Gomhouria. Cinema A Bücker Bü 181 'Bestmann' was used in the movie The Great Escape. It was flown in the movie by James Garner with Donald Pleasence as his passenger. Military operators Algerian Air Force – 12 Gomhourias delivered, starting in 1962 Bulgarian Air Force Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia Czechoslovak Air Force – postwar Czechoslovakian