Found in some woods and restored to flying condition in the UK.
All you need are the bare bones,the experts do the rest.
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Found in some woods and restored to flying condition in the UK.
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nice find barry i remmber seeing the pictures of this find published in the warbirds journal some years back! didnt realise it was flying already?Comment
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hey that looks uncannily like my Butchered bird dio
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It certainly does Marty !Comment
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Sadli I found out yesterday that it is not Squiff,it resides in a farm building awaiting rebuild one day together with other Luftwaffe finds.
I think that there was some confusion with that American replica FW.190.
nice find barry i remmber seeing the pictures of this find published in the warbirds journal some years back! didnt realise it was flying already?
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I found this link on the www.ww2aircraft.net forums, the original post is:
Here's some images of the restoration (Click image for higher res version):
I thought I recognized this Fw-190 video. Its the Fw-190A-5/U3 of 4/JG 54 werk 1501227 know as White A or factory code DG+HO.
It was reportedly brought down by flak after a fighter bomber sortie in the area of Voibakala. Pilot Feldwebel Paul Ratz taken prisoner by Russian's. Released in the 1950's and was repatriated to germany where he died shortly before the aircraft was recovered. Recovered in 1990 and shipped to UK and sold to Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection, Seattle in 1999
Current location is at JME Aviation in Norfolk UK and registered as N19027. Its hoped to have engine test's some time in 2006.
Interesting thing is that flak was not the real cause of the crash. During engine strip down they found uniform rag's in the oil lines.
Its in the classic wings magazine vol 12 No5 2005 Issue 53. Tommorrow after work I will see if I can scan the article or at least some of the restoration pictures in the magazine.
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