French built Focke Wulf 190's

There is a picture of one in the But that aircraft never flew with that airforce- picture thread at ModMil.

Thanks for this info NC900! I have learned something new today. I’m glad at least one survived. With more than 60 built (or repaired), the NC900 is an important post war evolution of this famous fighter.

Thanks,

Stieglitz

http://www.histavia21.net/NC900n5.htm

http://www.histavia21.net/NC900n4.htm

http://wingshots.foxalpha.com/NC900.php

http://gaubs.free.fr/ESCADRILLES/NEUNEU/Photos/NC900.htm

Hi guys,
Here is some picture of the NC900,
NC900 were more repaired FW190A than built.
They were made of set of wings (162) and fuselage (127) found at the underground factory of Cravant near Auxerre where the German made a repair facility for theire FW190A. after the war, French lacked of modern aircraft an decided to use those parts as a stop gap. It seams that wings and fuselage were mixed regardless of the original type.
N°1 flew the 16th March 1945, but only certified the 11 May 1945 due to numerous problem.
NC900s were to equiped the famous “Normandie-Niemen” squadron back in France but the pilots didn’t realy appreciate the beast, the disponibility of the NC900 in the squadron was apparently always weak due to maintenance problems, lack of reliable spare (many were sabotaged during the occupation) finaly they were superseded by….. Mosquito !!! (That’s a good one)
Unfortunatly There’s no Mosquito left in France but you can see a NC900 (the N°62) at Le Bourget airspace museum, not bad anyway….
Cheers,

Olivier

more info at http://fw190.hobbyvista.com/foreign.htm

IIRC, there’s a chap that calls himself NC900 has recently joined the forum. I wondered what it meant. I suspect he may know something.

Thanks Dave! I’m glad you share some of your knowledge about german aircraft again! 🙂

Are there pics about any NC.900 in service and how long did the french use their Focke Wulfs?

Greets,

Stieglitz

Stieglitz

Focke Wulf Fw 190A-8 (NC.900) wk.nr. 730924
Musee de l’Air, Paris, French c/n 62.
Radio Codes TL+WJ
One of 120 machines built by Ago, Oshersleben between May and June 1944 it sustained unknown combat damage and ended up at a Luftwaffe repair plant in France, one of approximately 130 fuselages and 160 wings of various A model subtypes. Sixty five machines were reassembled from these damaged aircraft, for service in the new postwar French AirForce.

regards
Dave