Looking through the posts in a Flt. Simulation Web-Site in USA, The mention of an original .unrestored Fokker DV11 Biplane from WW1 hidden away in a small Museum in Quebec,since early 1920’s caught my eye, A Canadian Simmer picked it up from the Knowlton Local rag.
It gets better as you read on too, enjoy, It looks beautiful and I’m still shaking my head in disbelief !! WoW !!!!
All is revealed here:-
http:http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/09/08/f-fokker-biplane-knowlton.html
Bill T.
By: Consul - 14th September 2010 at 22:24
Bill
Glad you like the photo. According to reports, in the 1960s the airframe received some TLC from the RCAF base at Trenton. The original fabric was deteriorating in places so was sensitively patched up, reputedly using some reconstructed material from the NASM in the USA. Components from several D.VIIs were found to have been embodied in the machine but it was said to be unclear whether that had occurred in service or post capture.
Tim
By: WV-903. - 14th September 2010 at 21:06
Still a Great piece of History !!
Photo of it is great, so original condition. yes!! the Museum should get a medal for looking after it so long, seems to me she is pretty safe in Quebec then. Glad the news here has alerted forum members, ( well most of us anyway ——-lol )
Bill T.
By: kleinnak - 14th September 2010 at 18:33
It may be a slow news-day story, yet I think it’s doing some good in the end. If at the very least it’s helping raise awareness of the museum, which might do it a lot more good than just money. For instance, as with many I had no idea that the city/museum/aircraft existed, but now that I know it does, I’m adding it to my list of places to visit very soon. So that’s my take anyway.
By: Consul - 14th September 2010 at 17:40
It certainly hasn’t just turned up. It’s been the pride and joy of the museum for many years and certainly isn’t hidden away!
Here’s a shot I took of it in 2008. I’ll try to turn up the notes I made at the time after discussing its origins and restoration history with them.
Tim
By: PanzerJohn - 14th September 2010 at 17:22
Being in a small museum has probably saved its originality, and stopped it being “restored” many times over.
By: JDK - 14th September 2010 at 16:24
I think you are right Fleet, sounds like a slow-news-day item. Be interested in the chap’s thesis though.
Value’s easy. Unique + historic + original = priceless. Not everything can (or should) be reckoned in L,S&d.
By: Fleet16b - 14th September 2010 at 15:23
AHHH.. It’s all a bunch of hype !
Every couple of years a newspaper with a slow news week pulls this issue out of the closet and uses it as a filler story and to stir people up.
The Fokker has been there always and the situation is well monitored by Heritage Canada.
Chances of this aircraft ever being sold outside Canada are very very slim if not impossible due to our Heritage Laws.
It was a gift to the people of Canada as a war trophy. That alone most likely bars it being sold to anyone other than a Canadian Museum.
Still it is an amazing a/c and really is the most original Fokker DVII in existance.
Fabric is original etc
Even determining a value would be difficult.
By: JDK - 14th September 2010 at 12:38
The aircraft is well known to Great War aircraft folks, although the museum itself is obscure to many – but then, so are ‘old aircraft’.
Interesting article. It won’t be leaving Canada, whatever, I’d wager.
And I note now Hughes is a ‘gazillionaire’.
(It’s not a D.V11, but a D.VII – Roman numeral for 7. The Romans didn’t have ‘1’. Yes it’s pedantic, but the careless use of 1 for I can, and does confuse marks – for instance Spitfire II or 11?)
Regards,
By: WV-903. - 14th September 2010 at 11:47
Try it again !!
Flyernz, I’ve just re- typed it out as I had same, but it works OK now.
Try it again.
Bill T.
By: flyernzl - 14th September 2010 at 11:44
Above link does not work for me.
Try http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/09/08/f-fokker-biplane-knowlton.html
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