I know the KZ.VIII isn’t active (but will be again hopefully) and not sure if they are all sole survivors.

The other KZ-VIII (OY-DRR) is airworthy in Denmark. As are the last KZ-X (OY-AOL) and the sole surviving Miles Mercury. The airworthy Gloster Gauntlet in Finland also fits into this thread…

If any potential publisher reads this: I have the (Danish) book and it’s great! I’m sure an English version would find huge audience.

It’ll be great, fantastic even, if the CAA eventually does allow the Flug-Werke machine to commit aviation in this country, and good if someone in the UK acquires her, but if it goes abroad to somewhere the legalities are a little more relaxed?

Well, it’s not as if the rest of the world is inundated with performances by these aircraft… I think only one has ever flown, and only on a couple of occasions (and never at a public event).

I think Atomic deserves praise for having taken into account the advice given in this thread. Something which sets this thread apart from others asking advice for similarly impossible “projects”….

One can’t blame youth for having such aspirations. I wasn’t any different, thinking at the age of 15 that it wasn’t a question if I would once own by own airworthy Harvard, rather than when.

I joined the Danish equivalent of the EAA a couple of years later and started learning:

I got to know someone who build a LongEz. During the building process his wife left him. Then his partner crashed it and he bought the partner out and repaired it.

Then I met someone who at the time (about 20 years ago) had been working for more than 10 years on another LongEz. It still hasn’t flown. The same applies to a Lancair 360 that an acquaintance of mine has been working on for 15 years now.

The other people I knew built an RV-4 in a reasonably short time scale, only for one of the partners to crash it a couple of months after its first flight. That happened at about the same time as I watched two people give up a Jodel project which they had purchased with the major component (the wing) already finished. The latter is a pretty impressive (read: daunting) structure…

All of the above aircraft are well known designs for which complete plans or even kits exist….

I now fly a rented 3-axis microlights (FK9) after having started out with a PPL (Bölkow Monsun, C172, C152, PA28). Lack of space, family and work commitments and many other issues probably mean that I will never build or restore an aircraft, as I had hoped for. But I can fly and I do fly, and what I fly is something which is not unfeasible for an individual to purchase. Much more so than a Harvard, a replica SE5a, a Grinsvald Orion or whatever else I had on my mind those many years ago. I learned something.

Both of the completed KZ-IV still survive in Denmark; one is airworthy and based at Stauning and the other is on static display in Helsingör. And the model was made by Tekno (which no longer exists) and you pay through your nose for a good one these days!

DA1 has been in the Flugwerft in Oberschleißheim near Munich for a couple of years. Think it was the first of the prototypes to go on museum display.