The large photograph and the one in the lower right-hand corner of the other set (where I count three cylinders > 6-cylinder engine) seem to show a door opening on the left-hand side (only?), something which I can’t fit onto any Piper, Mooney or Beech types…. :confused:

Were the Skeeters not grounded because their rotor blades are coming apart and/or are time-expired and no replacements are available?

AFAIK one of the Swiss/German Sycamores is still flying and is based in Altenrhein on Lake Constance.

There are a couple of ex-Danish Navy Alouette III flying in Switzerland, a radial-engined Sikorsky S-58 in fake Luftwaffe colours in Germany, Flying Bulls/Red Bull in Salzburg/Austria have an airworthy Huey Cobra and the Danish Air Force has put their more than 40 years old Sikorsky S-61 up for sale.

The Swiss air force, including their display team Patrouille Suisse, still flies the F-5E Tiger. As does the Turkish air force display team.

That picture in the Macaws ’73 brochure taken over the Olympic stadium in Munich popped up in a separate thread here some time ago…

DazDaMan and Wiessoo are correct:

It’s a (very rare) Hispano Ha 1109 (c/n 54) which belongs to the Messerschmitt Foundation. I believe it spent several years in the open at the MBB facilities in Augsburg and was then restored/converted to represent a Bf 109G-2. It went on display at a museum in Munich painted in green primer only, acquired a camouflage scheme without markings and then the odd all-over silver scheme shown in the photo.

It’s used as a travelling, strictly static exhibit and has never flown while in Germany.

Do the schemes both are finished in look authentic for Flugzeugführerschule “A”..?

As also mentioned earlier, I believe the standard Luftwaffe scheme was overall yellow.

Not to mention ‘Where Eagle Dare’ in which a line of balkenkreuz decorated T6 were demolished by our heroes in a bus.

I believe that film was made in Switzerland, and that Swiss AF Harvards were sacrificed.

The Great Escape…

This may be a long shot, but according to Wikipedia, some parts of this film were recorded in Füssen in South Germany. This is not too far away from Landsberg, where Flugzeugführerschule “A” was apparently based, and if IIRC it is fairly flat around Landsberg, as in the photographs (it’s a Luftwaffe Transall base now, BTW)

There’s a comprehensive list of post-war Lufwaffe serials in the forum in my signature.

According to this AA+070 was indeed a Luftwaffe Harvard with the c/n CCF4-504, and is listed as “scrapped”.

There is no AA+376, but an AA+676 (which also seems legible on the photo), this being c/n CCF4-481 and was also “scrapped”.

The aircraft belonged to Flugzeugführerschule “A” and the markings were used prior to 1968.

Is the light aircraft in the background perhaps a Luftwaffe Piper L-18?

If anyone knows more about it ….please tell.

Someone wants it back; see picture #4. There’s a precise address as well, so no excuses please.
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