Adler's Warbirds

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Dornier Do 24T-3
Werk Nummer: UNK

Current Location: Deutsches Museum in Oberschleisheim, Oberschleisheim, Germany

History of this aircraft is unknown. It was previously located at the Dornier-Fairchild Factory in Oberpfaffenhofen.

 

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Dornier Do 335A-0 Pfeil
Werk Nummer: 240102

Current Location: National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington DC, USA

This was the second Do 335 A-0 built. Dornier designated this airframe construction number 240102 and gave it the aircraft identification code VG + PH and A-02. The aircraft was completed at the Dornier's plant at Mengen, Germany on 30 September 1944. From 20-23
April 1945, German test pilot Hans Werner Lerche flew it from Rechlin back to Oberpfaffenhofen near Münich, via Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Lechfeld, Germany. Allied forces found this Do 335 at Oberpfaffenhofen on April 29 1945.

 

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Fiesler Fi 156C-3 Storch
Werk Nummer: 5440

Current Location: Deutsches Museum in Oberschleisheim, Oberschleisheim, Germany

 

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Fiesler Fi 153C-3 Storch
Werk Nummer: 4370

Current Location: Germany

Year Built: 1942

 

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Fieser Fi 156C-3 Storch
Werk Nummer: 2042

Current Location: Germany

 

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Fiesler Fi 156C-3 Storch
Werk Nummer: 2088

Current Location: Germany

 

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Fiesler Fi 156C-3
Werk Nummer: UNK

Current Location: France

 

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Fiesler Fi 156C-3
Werk Nummer: 4299

Current Location: Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany

Displayed in Swiss Air Force markings behind the 109.

 

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Focke-Angelis Fa 330A-1b
Werk Nummer: 60133

Current Location: National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington DC, USA

Specific history of this acft is not known. Just that it was brought to the US in 1945 and evaluated until 1948. It then sank in Tampa Bay Harbor. It was raised and restored in 1975.

 

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More to come later. Time to get to bed.

 

[Wayne Little]

Good shots..!

 

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Focke Wulf Fw 44J Stieglitz
Werk Nummer: 2782

Current Location: France

Year Built: 1940

 

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Focke Wulf Fw 190F-8/U1
Werk Nummer: 584219

Current Location: RAF Museum Hendon, London, England

594219 was built in 1944 at the Arado plant at Warnemünde, as a standard F-8 single seat variant. It was converted from single to tandem two seat standard by R Sochor Fabrik at Blanz-Blansko in Poland. It was assigned to Jagdfliegerschule 103. In May 1945 it was flown and surrendered to Allied Forces at Grove Airfield in Denmark.

 

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Focke Wulf Fw 190A-8
Werk Nummer: UNK

Current Location: Sinsheim Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Germany

This aircraft is built using multiple wrecks and other aircraft.

 

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Focke Wulf Fw 190A-8/R6
Werk Nummer: 733682

Current Location: RAF Museum Cosford, Cosford, England

(Aircraft was previously located at the Imperial War Museum in London, which is where I took these pics.)

733682 was the fighter pairing of a Mistel with a Junkers Ju 88. It was surrendered in this configuration in Denmark in 1945. There it was separated from the Ju 88 and flown to England.

 

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Focke Wulf Fw-190A-8/N
Werk Nummer: 990013

Current Location: Eschbach, Germany

This is a Flugwerk modern reproduction, given the Werk Nummer 990013. It was previously owned by Christophe Jacquard as F-AZZJ. Damaged in an emergency ditching in Hyères, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur on 12 June 2010, and is being repaired back to airworthy status.

 

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Focke Wulf Fw 190F-8
Werk Nummer: 931884

Current Location: National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington DC, USA

This aircraft was built in late 1943 as a Fw 190A-7 fighter, werk nummer 640069. After suffering damage during operations it was repaired and remanufactured into an Fw 190 F-8 fighter bomber and assigned the werk nummer 931884. The conversion involved fitting a new wing and bomb racks to the original fuselage and adding armor plate around and beneath the cockpit. Reissued to the Luftwaffe, the aircraft flew on the Eastern Front during late 1944, probably on strength with SG 2, based in Hungary. The exact circumstances of its capture remain obscure but it was probably flown, during the war's final days, to an airfield in western Germany and handed over to Allied forces.

During restoration in the 1980s, the original paint scheme was found, as well as 2 other paint schemes that were applied during the war. The original werk nummer was also found.

 

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Horton Ho 229V-3
Werk Nummer: UNK

Current Location: National Air and Space Museum Paul E. Garber Restoration Facility, Washington DC.

The 229 V-3 was found in Friedrichsroda, Germany, in April 1945, along with the V-4, V-5 and V-6. Horten had designed airframes V4 and V5 as single-seat night fighters and V6 would have become a two-seat night fighter trainer. The V3 was approximately half finished and nearest to completion of the four airframes. Army personnel removed it three days later and shipped it to the U.S., and the incomplete center section arrived at Silver Hill (now the Paul E. Garber Facility, Suitland, MD) in 1952. There is no evidence that any wing sections were recovered at Friedrichsroda, however members of the 9th Air Force Air Disarmament Division found a pair 121 km (75 miles) from this village, and these wings might be the same pair now included with the Ho 229 V3.

 

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Heinkel He 111H
Werk Nummer: 025

Current Location: Deutsches Museum Oberschleisheim, Germany

This aircraft actually is a Spanish Licensed built CASA 2.111B.

 

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Heinkel He 111H
Werk Nummer: 005

Current Location: Sinsheim Technik Museum, Sinsheim, Germany

This aircraft is actually a Spanish License built CASA 2.111B with the SN: 005, painted in the configuration of a He 111H-16.