Was discussing several restoration projects last night with a German guy on the IMDB (talking about The Few ) and he was asking whether there were any airworthy original Fw190s around. I told him none, except the WAR replicas, were flying, but wasn’t the Fw190D-13 owned by Doug Champlin technically flyable except for problems with its prop?
Where is this aircraft now?
By: DazDaMan - 10th February 2004 at 13:10
Thanks for the link and pic, guys.
Looking at the Gosshawk site, it appears the Bf109E (Hispano Buchon) was ground run, at least. Was it ever flown?
So, what’s with the Champlin Musuem aircraft? I’ve never heard much about it except for a few of the planes in it. There isn’t much about it on the site, either.
By: Eddie - 10th February 2004 at 13:04
Does anyone else think there’s an odd resemblence between the funny “single seat Tr.9” Spitfire and the Spitfire Mk.26? Looks very strange, anyway!
By: Mark12 - 10th February 2004 at 12:56
Mesa Arizona – 20 October 1995
By: Firebird - 10th February 2004 at 12:39
Daz,
I knew I had the link somewhere…..:D
The Doug Champlin FW190D-13 is being restored by Gosshawk Unlimited, see link below for details.
By: DazDaMan - 10th February 2004 at 12:22
Thanks for that, Firebird.
Seems a bit silly to rebuild the plane again, when it was essentially completely restored before, but I suppose it’s the owner’s whim… :rolleyes:
By: Firebird - 10th February 2004 at 11:41
I believe the Champlin 190D is undergoing a rebuild, but if I remember there is NO intention to fly it at any time.
Don’t forget the Flying A 190 (A? F?) that was recovered from Russia a number of years ago, that is on rebuild to fly.
I guess though that is still some way off, although if I remember correctly, the engineer that was doing the TFC Beau rebuild (Kym ??) left TFC to go to this FW190 project, which is one of the reasons work on the Beau has slowed down…..:confused:
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