Complete FW190 Found in Polish Forest

[rstel01]

Check this out 190 Junkies,

This might have already been recovered by Paul Allen and undergoing restoration.

Their are outstanding finds coming from Eastern Europe

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=NUwF2FRQmIU&feature=related

[avionix]

   I so want!!!!   

[SuBWaYCH]

I wonder what unit that could be from. Its to hard to tell from the video

[Sunka]

It's in remarkable condition

[titanic3]

nearly 70 years and still in recognizable shape.. what part of the forest was this found in?

[FiLtH]

  The part where the trees are


     Seriously though, it looked like a bullet hole in the panel,anyone see it?

[Masherbrum]

I wonder what unit that could be from. Its to hard to tell from the video

This is the Fw-190A-5/U3 of 4/JG 54 werk 1501227 known as White A or DG+HO.

Pilot Feldwebel Paul Ratz taken prisoner by Russian's.  He was released in the 1950's and was repatriated to Germany where he died shortly before the aircraft was recovered.  It was recovered in 1990, shipped to UK and sold to Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection, Seattle in 1999.   It was thought to have been brought down by flak from a bomber mission.

Flak was not the real cause of the crash. IIRC, when they stripped the engine they found uniform rags in the oil lines. 

[FireDragon]

Why would it have rags in the oil lines..... 

Carelessness???

[Rino]

Sabotage

[John Curnutte]

 Yes sabatoge was a huge factor in the axis end of things  , as manpower became short they used prison labor and others too do the work and they did all kinds of things to hamper the efforts of the germans . and were pretty successful at it . Nice video hope it flys again looks in decent shape considering .
Nutte

[Platano]

If kayara hadnt posted that info I woulda said score another one for the trees.

Trees: 302,576,935,783,953

Pilot: 0

[007Rusty]

<<<< hates trees      

If kayara hadnt posted that info I woulda said score another one for the trees.

Trees: 302,576,935,783,953

Pilot: 0

[sethipus]

Those trees are less than 45 years old.

Awesome find.  One has to wonder, with this 190, and the German-operated T-34 they pulled out of that lake, how many more such finds will be made?

[CAP1]

Those trees are less than 45 years old.

Awesome find.  One has to wonder, with this 190, and the German-operated T-34 they pulled out of that lake, how many more such finds will be made?

i dunno.....

what i DO know, is that there is an FW190...i think it's an F8 on kissimme gateway airport, that's just over 1/2 way done in resotration. it would be incredible to see one of these beautiful machines fly again.

[BaldEagl]

Finders keepers