Hello chaps!

As some of you might have wondered, here's the Focke-Wulf I have the chance of flying in the summer time.



She's a Piaggio P.149D built under license in Germany, this particular one is S/N 167 and was built in 1959. Power comes from a BMW-Lycoming GO-480-B1A6 of 275HP and she has room for 4 persons.

Roles were training, aerobatics, navigation and hack.



She's painted as a Fw 190A-3, but all the crosses, numbers and stencils are authentic, we reproduced what we found on the aircraft when we bought it.

What's up guys?

No one likes a pretty airplane?

Its not plastic! Nice looking bird. How much time have you got in her? "Q"

About 200. I put around 50 on her each summer.

We don't fly in the winter, it's too hard on the engine.

WOW! Wish i had something like that! Also, shame it is not a real Fw-190!

cheers

Philip

p.s That unit embelem on the nose (eagle) looks alot like the Squadron logo!

Thanks.

The eagle is taken from the one 9, III/JG2 used during the war, and which is also used by Squadron.

And a Fw 190 would be a lot more expensive to operate!

Very cool Oliver. Unique for a civilian aircraft. How long did it take you to apply that scheme? Wingman out.

That is a great looking aircraft and boy am I jealous :-)

Thanks for sharing some pics. I was really interested in seeing what you fly.
Since you are into scale modeling....have you made your own scale model of it yet? That would be a fun one to do.
That would be a great addition for some walkaround and interior pics!
Good modeling and great flying
Wayne

Thanks guys.

-wingman : the painter took about 2 months to strip the plane, then get her painted. After that it was a good 5 months of work to ger her airworthy.

Rebuilding real planes is a very long and tedious process. Not unlike a short run kit! :-)

-Wad_ware : nope, no model yet. I'm not a great scratchbuilder, so I prefer to wax and polish instead! This summer, I'll rig up a good walk-around for you guys.

Could you not just visit the airfield? Hard to brelive that that baby can hold 4 people.

cheers

Philip

p.s I will send you a pm for an idea that i have

Believe me, she can hold 4 passengers allright.



Visit the airfield? What do you mean?

he probly means: ollie, you have to come visit frank and show him the baby!

which airport you at? the one near bdf, is it repentigny round there?

Frank

No idea, his question is pretty confusing!?! :-) :-) :-)

Yeap, I'm at Mascouche, just before Repentigny.

LOL that was a surprise!!!
Ron

A surprise, why?

It's an aircraft, no?

its the one near mascouche, i know were that is.. if iam right, there's a dirtbike/ 4 wheeler trail round there, il have to check it out once the snow melts

Frank

Hi Ollie,

Here's your chance to own and fly a real FW-190A-8/N:

Today's FW-190

Got a spare 600K Euros laying around?

thats no FW!!!
Ron

Well, I'm sorry, but that's a Focke-Wulf FwP.149D, built in Bremen in 1959, 167th to come out of the line.

Registered and flown in Canada since 2000.

Not all Focke-Wulfs were mean sods you know!!

And be respectful of my mistress, will ya?