In April 1933, Erhard Milch, previously head of Deutsche Luft Hansa, was appointed Secretary of State for Air.

[2] The ICAR 36 was a high-wing cantilever monoplane of mixed construction, with a closed cockpit, single engine, and fixed landing gear.

It had a welded steel tube fuselage, covered with plywood, and tapered single-spar, plywood-covered wings.

The cabin for six passengers, with wide rectangular windows and access doors at the rear, was aft and below the cockpit / wings.

[2] The fixed landing gear was supported by long faired vertical struts to the wings, with teardrop spats over the mainwheels and a tailwheel at the end of the fuselage.