A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

Bonjour,

A rare photo of a brand new Fw 190 D9 (test flight ?)

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Foto-Jagdflie...EAAOSwKfVXESiz

Best regards.

Rémi

Re: A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

If 923 is the last numbers of the WNr, would be from one of these block numbers.



210 901 - 210 999 Focke-Wulf, Cottbus
211 901 - 211 950 Focke-Wulf, Cottbus
601 961 - 601 980 Fieseler, Kassel

Re: A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

Considering the solid one color camo and the black paint around the exhaust it looks like an early bird.

Re: A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

Text on the back of the photo reads: "I/45, in ?????, Jäger überrennt mein Auto"
"January 45, at ????, fighter runs over my car."
Hth, Richard

Re: A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

As for the location I would risk "I/45, In Sorau"

Cheers
Marc

Re: A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

About halfway this old thread you can find a highly likely month-by-month WNr block "spread" of the five Focke-Wulf D-9 production batches:

http://www.japo.eu/discussion.php?f=5#wnrred13

With this information plus the date Jan/1945, I would say 211923.

BR, Juha

Re: A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

Somebody have too much money !

Re: A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

One interesting thing is that the 9 is a bit bigger than the 23, but some W.Nr.s is paunted the same way, with the first number also bigger.

Re: A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

A very very nice picture...!!!

Re: A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

Versuchsmuster of the Fw 190A had the last digits of their Werknummer painted big on their engine cowlings.
Could it be this Fw 190D is a Focke-Wulf Versuchsmuster, too, with the last digits of its Werknummer painted small, as it used to be in late war with most codes and numbers?
The other possibility might be a substitute for the omitted StKz.

Regards

RolandF

Re: A rare view of a Fw 190 D9
 

Such a cool photo Remi!

It really could be 211923 from 3rd batch made in Sorau.

There are few known photos of it's sister 211925 "Blau 1+-" of 8./JG 6 and that mount for shows same features:
- black paint around the exhausts
- quite dark uniformly painted nose/fuselage
- same type of nose MGs' cover
- blown canopy

Unfortunately that machine doesn't have 925 applied to it's nose.
And I cannot distinguish if the wings' undersurfaces are NMF too or not? There seem to be something odd to it's underwing cross but I am not able to judge it well because it's so close to the edge of the photo (so it's better to ignore this comment).