Museums with Luftwaffe aircraft

[Richard T Eger]

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Marcus Wendel
Museums & Memorials
Sat Jul 15 15:36:15 2000


I'm working on a listing of all museums with German WW2 equipment.
The info I have so far is published here: http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/museums.htm

Any additional info on related museums and/or memorials would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

/Marcus

[Richard T Eger]

Complementing Marcus Wendel's <U>Museums & Memorials</U> page on his Third Reich Factbook website is Mikael Olrog's Preserved Axis Aircraft Throughout the World website.

Where the museums and memorials page looks at these facilities country by country, noting the aircraft in each museum or memorial, Mikael's website organizes by type of aircraft, engine, or missile, noting at which museums or other facility these are located at.

The address for Mikael's website is: http://www.axisaircraft.com

Regards,
Richard

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[Richard T Eger]

Peter Evans' Luftwaffe Experten Mailing List website has a Worldwide Captive Luftwaffe webpage listing, by aircraft type, Luftwaffe aircraft in museums or other facilities around the world. In this regard, the listing is very similar to that provided in Mikael Olrog's Preserved Axis Aircraft Throughout the World website. The URL for the Worldwide Captive Luftwaffe webpage is:

http://www.experten.fsnet.co.uk/restore.html

Regards,
Richard

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[Richard T Eger]

The Hugo Junkers Homepage by Horst Zoeller presents information and photos of Remaining Junkers Aircraft Worldwide, including engines. There are numerous photos of Junkers aircraft and engines both in museums and at crash sites, some of them under water. The website URL is:

http://www.junkers.de.vu

Regards,
Richard

[Richard T Eger]

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Gordon
JG 5 Eismeer pins
Mon Sep 11 20:08:30 2000


At the little air museum in San Antonio Texas, they sell wonderful copies of JG 5 Eismeer badges for $5. I bought a few of them to help support the museum. Its the
smallest building I have ever seen that called itself a "Museum"! It had only two aircraft -- a small postwar trainer and a wonderfully restored FW-190A-8, formerly of JG 5.
"Blue 4" and a companion (now on display in Rio Hondo Texas) were shot down in early 1945 by RAF Mustangs and 45 years later they were scrapped up and rebuilt.
"Blue 4" is not yet complete, but the work is great. It still carries its original cannons and, unfortunately, a lot of its original rust, but its the closest thing to a decent air
museum around here!

v/r
Gordon

[Richard T Eger]

The website A Detailed Look At The Messerschmitt Bf109, by Matt C. Bole, presents exhaustive coverage of the Bf 109. The URL is:


http://members.aol.com/bf109gust/


Of particular interest to the preserved aircraft aficionado is an extensive listing of surviving Bf 109's, HA-1112's, and CS-199's.

Regards,
Richard

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[Richard T Eger]

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Kent
Ba 349 photos posted
Fri Sep 29 18:20:09 2000


Hello!
I've recently returned from Florida and a visit to The Fantasy Of Flight Museum. While there I photographed their Natter. Can any one tell me more about this particular
example? See the images at: http://home.earthlink.net/~khej/index.html

Cheers!
Kent

[Richard T Eger]

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Mikael Olrog
Ba 349
Sat Sep 30 12:29:35 2000


Hi,

This Ba 349 is probably a replica (haven't heard of it before though) since the only originals are with National Air and Space museum in Washington DC and Deutches
Museum in Munich. You can see pics of them at www.algonet.se/~molrog/ (http://www.algonet.se/~molrog/) There's also a replica at Planes of Fame, Chino California.

Do you have any information about the Fi 103 that I could see in the background of your number 3 photo on your site?

/Mikael

[Richard T Eger]

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Ronnie
Re: Ba 349
Sun Oct 1 14:23:21 2000


From the looks of it, I think you are right, Mikael. They might have used some genuine part as well, such as the rocket rails and cockpit instruments.

Kent, I bet this museum has a homepage. Maybe you'll find your answer there. Or you might try to contact the people who look after the preservation of the aircraft.

[Richard T Eger]

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skip
B-25 flight - take a look
Wed Oct 4 20:22:35 2000


For those of you interested in pictures and streaming video take a look at this site. It also has recent picture of the restoral of the FW 190 at Warbird Restoration Museum
in Kissimmee, Florida.

[Richard T Eger]

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skip
oops hyperlink here.
Wed Oct 4 20:23:19 2000

http://hometown.aol.com/skip574445/story25.htm

[Richard T Eger]

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Will.
Sorry, the link didnt work4me.....nt
Thu Oct 5 12:49:56 2000

(Note, as of 10/15/00, this link was working for me. Regards, Richard.)

[Richard T Eger]

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skip
non functioning link
Thu Oct 5 17:50:07 2000


Will,
Sorry, your right I couldn't get it to work. You might just cut and paste the link to your browser. There are actually two sites AOL and Fortune City. AOL is where I used
text and links (that do work) for picture and video and then at the bottom of the page you can link to fortune city were I have lots of pics and video. (Video from T-6 texan
flight- rolls etc.) and some P-51 footage I took.
Sorry about the link not working,
Skip

[HZoeller]

Mikael,
Fantasy of Flight Museum received the V1
in July 2000 (just a few days before I
visited the backlots there). As the people
there told me, this V1 came from Germany.
They don't like to tell you much about their
sources, but I think it came from the
Technikmuseum in Berlin.

Actually I am surprised about the Ba343,
as I didn't see it in July. It must be
the latest arrival at Polk City. I also
don't believe, that it is original, even
if a lot of preseries Natter survived
at the Bachem Werke in Germany until the
mid-60s (the Munich Natter was a rebuilt
from several of these survivers in 1966,
so it's nearly not an original Natter ;-) )
I was thinking of the Plane of Fame Natter
at Chino, but today Chino confirmed that
its Natter is still there.
Therefore there are just the Natter replica
in England or at Dresden, which might be
the Polk City one or it is a complete new
replica.

Best, Horst



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[Richard T Eger]

The online Sept. 2000 issue of the IPMS Stockholm Magazine has an article with color photos of the Planes of Fame museum, Chino, California, Me 262A, T-2-4012. The article, entitled <U>Messerschmitt Me 262 in Detail</U>, was written by Martin Waligorski, who also supplied the single general and 11 detail color photos. The article gives a brief history of this plane, which once was an Me 262A-1a/U3 prior to its nose swap with FE-111, now in the NASM collection.

The article can be found at:


http://www.hotel.wineasy.se/ipms/stuff_eng_detail_me262.htm


Regards,
Richard

[Richard T Eger]

Douglas Bullard's The Nurflügel Page website shows photos of the Ho IX V3 and other aircraft now at the Garber facility and of the Ho IV now at the Planes of Fame museum in Chino, California. Details of the Garber plane photos can be found under the topic Paul E. Garber Facility Aircraft on this forum.

The following provides information on this site on the Ho IV aircraft now at the Planes of Fame museum.

The website address is:


http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/nurflugel.html


After getting on the site, click on Top in the menu, which will bring you to the main page. Scroll down the page and click on the following link:


Fantastic color pictures of the Ho IV

These pictures of the Ho IV a LA-AC, serial z25, were taken during testing at Mississippi State University about 1960. Thirty-eight color and 38 black & white photos are presented.

Next click on Ho IV in the left column. Clicking on Color pictures of the Ho IV during testing at MSU would bring you to the same page of 76 photos. Note under this link are 2 additional color photos of this aircraft now at the Planes of Fame museum in Chino, California.

Regards,
Richard

[HZoeller]

Kent,
I got an info from Peter Cohausz (author of
the magnificant museum list book "Deutsche
Flugzeuge bis 1945") about the Natter at
Polk City. This Natter is a replica of the
auction house Kunzce at Landsberg in Germany.
Horst Lommel (author of the book "Der erste
bemannte Raketenstart der Welt" = "First
manned rocket take offs") was a member of
the construction team. According to Peter
Cohausz the V1 also came from there.
Best, Horst

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[Richard T Eger]

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erwin verhaeghe
flyable luftwaffe a/c?
Wed Oct 11 21:28:13 2000

Outside some Bf109's (Spanish ones and 1 German);are there anymore Luftwaffe a/c which still fly,or which are in a restoration stage to be flyable again.I'm thinking
especially on Fw190's and Me262's (the Australian black X?).

[Richard T Eger]

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Robert Miller
Flyable Aircraft
Thu Oct 12 01:31:09 2000


I know that a Fw-190 is being restored in the United States (Florida) and that there were 2 Bf-109 replicas built and are flown in the upper mid-west of the U.S. I will add
more details when I can dig them out. Are there anymore out there ???

[Richard T Eger]

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Mark Sheppard
Luftwaffe aircraft to fly.
Fri Oct 13 20:07:13 2000


Currently there is only one

Bf109 E-1/E-7 W.Nr3579 which is flying in California

Bf109 E-3 W.Nr1342 Restoration to fly.

Bf109 E-7 W.Nr1983. Long term restoration to fly.

Bf109 G-6/G-14? (Evergreen USA)

FW190 A-5 W.Nr1227. Restoration to fly.

I am sure there are a few others as well.

These are the ones I know most about.

MS

[Richard T Eger]

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Dan Taylor
FW 190 and Me 262 replicas
Sun Oct 15 19:12:57 2000


Check out www.flugwerk.de (http://www.flugwerk.de) for details on the new FW 190's being built in Germany and www.stormbirds.com (http://www.stormbirds.com) for information on the flight testing and production of Me 262
replicas in the USA.
Pretty exciting stuff. There is also a company in the USA who are building a Me163 Komet replica! This project has a website, use your iternet search and you should find
it, I can't remember it off-hand.
Cheers, Dan

[Richard T Eger]

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Sergio Luis dos Santos
Re: flyable luftwaffe a/c?
Mon Oct 16 13:39:19 2000


Also check the info on www.algonet.se/~molrog (http://www.algonet.se/~molrog)

[Francis Marshall]

Gordon,

can you give us the precise name and address of this museum (the one in San Antonio, Texas), possibly even some directions ?

Francis

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