[Petrusja]

Another question then about Fw 44s that were 'called back' from the customer...

In 1940 Norway bought ten Fw 44s from a final batch that Fw had built in annexed Prague for export (German production had stopped). Bernd Vetter writes that they were 'delivered according to contract in April 1940.' It feels to me that he doesn't feel like mentioning that the invasion of Norway began on 9 April... These aircraft were rather quickly resold to Finland.

My question is of course what exactly happened. The word Vetter uses for 'delivered' is 'überführt', which as a Dutchman I understood as 'ferried,' but it seems it can mean both that and 'handed over'. So did they make it to Norway? Were they handed over to a Norwegian representative without departing? Were Norwegian ferry pilots arrested? It could be a saucy story.