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Re: Austrian Fw 44 Stieglitzes
The first aircraft to reach Austria were obviously Focke-Wulf built at Bremen. Your Hirtenberger registered a/c OE-DHP was most likely the patent aircraft sent by Focke-Wulf as a construction tool of how the aircraft was put together. This was most likely W/Nr 1343 which was later integrated into the Austrian Air Force as OE-TMI. The 10 other aircraft were 1744 - 1745 & 2253 to 2262
The first of the 20 licence built aircraft were given the Hirtenberger factory construction numbers was from 7 to 26. There is no record of the next 20 possibly because only 50% were complete by the time of the German take-over.
The serial numbers are as follows
451 to 462 = licence built (12 a/c)
491 to 499 = Focke-Wulf built (9 a/c)
4001 to 4002 = Focke-Wulf built (2 a/c)
4003 to 4022 = Focke-Wulf built (20 a/c)
4023 = Focke-Wulf built )1 a/c)
4024 to 4043 = licence built (20 a/c)
which if I count right makes up the 64 a/c
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