At least one Hurricane was exported to Argentina post-war. There was feature in Air Enthusiast a few years ago on this particular Hurricane. From memory, I am unsúre if she was on the books of the Argentinian AF, but, again from memory, she at least flew in Argentinian skies. No air-to-air combat, though!

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Jan

Hi Entropy,

Although many B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators came down in Sweden during the war, none were ever served in the Swedish Air Force (Flygvapnet). Many of them were test flown in Sweden, but by US crews (usually with at least one Swedish officer onboard and reduced fuelload). None received Swedish Air Force insignia, unlike several of the B-17s and B-24s that landed in Switzerland.

At the end of the war, the Swedish Air Force looked into the possibility of obtaining and converting some of the B-17s or B-24s for aerial mine-sweeping duties, which would use the same technique as the Luftwaffe with their ‘Mausi’ Bv 138s and Ju 52/3ms. Ultimately, this was deemed as being too dangerous, and a job better performed by ships.

However, seven B-17s were rebuilt by Saab into 14-seat airliners for use by SILA. The basic story of this can be found here: http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2006/february/i_history.html

Of the ten P-51 Mustangs that landed in Sweden, four (two Bs and two Ds) entered service with Flygvapnet. The sole F-5E Lightning that came down in Sweden (s/n 42-28616, which landed at Wing F 8 Barkarby on 22 November 1944), was test flown at Wing F 1 until she was written off in a landing accident on 28 June 1945. Sadly, no Flygvapnet markings.

Re the Luftwaffe aircraft, the Bf 109G-10 referred to by SierraEchoFred was piloted by Horst Petzschler, and later test flown by the Swedish Air Force. During these tests, the Bf 109G received a blue and yellow cross painted over the Balkenkreutz. The whole story and photos of Petzschler’s Bf 109 and all other Luftwaffe aircraft that for various reasons came down in Sweden during the war can be found in Bo Widfeldt’s book Luftwaffe in Sweden, of which more here: http://ahr.widfeldt.se/swedish/bok_luftwaffe.jsp.

Incidentally, Flygvapnet planned to buy two Luftwaffe Ju 52/3ms after the war, but, for various reasons, this was not proceeded with.

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Jan

Some information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_aircraft_carrier_Graf_Zeppelin,
here:http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/2833/kriegsmarine/carrier/grafzeppelin/grafzeppelin.html
and here: http://www.germannavy.de/smb/scalemodels/ships/grafzeppelin/history.html

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Jan

Mikael Carlson, of Thulin A (Bleriot XI) and Tummelisa fame, has nearly completed flyable replica of a Fokker D VII. More here: http://www.aerodrome.nu/

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Jan

Correct URL should be http://wv838.com/

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Jan

First edition. http://www.ub.gu.se/

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Jan

Hi Stormbird262, videos of the USN C-130F carrier landings can be found here: http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/c130_forrestal.asp Scary stuff! 😮

Twenty-nine touch and goes and 21 unassisted full stop landings and 21 take offs were performed. The KC-130F used, Bu 149798, is preserved at the National Museum of naval Aviation at Pensacola.

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Jan

Peru received two variants of the Douglas Bomber, ten 8A-3Ps and 13 former USAAF A-33s (aka 8A-5s).

Joe Baugher has this to say on the 8A-3P:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_us/a17-06.html and this on the A-33: http://home.att.net/~jbaugher4/a17_9.html

It would appear that the object beneath the rear fuselage is in fact a partially retractable bomb-aiming tub! This would most likely make her an 8A-3P, which of course has no Scandinavian connection.

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Jan