". . .a collection of four Halberstadt CL.IV from Paul Straehle, the former Jasta 18 / 57 pilot. He started Straehle Luftverkehr ( Air Traffic) with several Halberstadts in 1919. The last flight of one of his Halberstadts was on Sept. 09, 1938. The D71 was restored by Daimler Benz in the sixties, but three more where still stored in Schorndorf. In the beginning of the eighties Paul Straehle tried to find a new place and planned to restore one of his Halberstadts to fly it. No partner could be found in Germany, so the complete collection went to the U.S. in 1982. Stan Parris and Ken Hyde swapped them for 6 T-28 from the Air Force Museum in Dayton. But they remained unrestored. The Museum fuer Verkehr und Technik offered to restore the Halberstadts, for getting one of them for display. The MVT now has D-IBAO on exhibit in Berlin, the US-Airforce-Museum got the 'Zebra' ( serial unknown) and the NSAM got 8103/18. It is still ( April 2001) in Schleissheim, until the NASM has finished the new buildings, I presume. This series of Halberstadt resorations are one of the best of WWI German aircraft yet. In my view they only compare to NASM's Albatros D.V. Lozenge fabric was printed after painstaking research, as a lot of original fabric was saved. On 8103/18 the fuselage camouflage was restored, also, including correct shades of the used paints." (from Hans Trauner)
images taken by Hans Trauner.
Josef Jacobs also had a Halberstadt CL.IV he used post war.
