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Re: Austrian Fw 44 Stieglitzes
The 10 FW 44J Stieglitz purchased by Norway for the Army Air Service were all produced under license by CKD in Tsjekkoslovakia. They were transferred to Warnemünde to be picked up there by Norwegian Army pilots. They had also been assigned Army Air Service serial numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19 on 24 February 1940. If these numbers had been applied before delivery is not known. They apparently all carried German civil registrations for the transit via Copenhagen and Gothenburg to Oslo-Kjeller. Focke Wulf invoiced the planes on 28 March 1940. Following the German invaion of Norway on 9 April1940, the planes remained at Warnemünde, later to be sold to Finland. A Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv document RL 3/3630 says: ... um die zweiten 10 FW 44J dort den Vertretern der Finnishe Luftwaffe zu übergeben. Die Flugzeuge waren vorher in Warnemünde von eine Malerkolonne von der Norwegen-ausführung an Finland-ausführung umgestellt worden." Date of document is 15 August 1940.
W.Nr. German reg. Finnish Air Force serials Later registrations
2775 D-EXWK SZ-12
2776 D-EXWL SZ-14 OH-XEK, D-EXWL
2777 D-EXWM SZ-16
2778 D-EXWO SZ-18 SE-BSZ
2779 D-EXWP SZ-20 OH-SZI, D-EAZE
2780 D-EXWQ SZ-11 OH-SZB, OH-SZG, SE-BEW, VH-FBU
2781 D-EXWR SZ-13
2782 D-EXWS SZ-15 OH-SZF, F-AZMJ
2826 D-EYWH SZ-17
2827 D-EYWI SZ-19 OH-SZH, N133JM
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