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Originally Posted by Jim P.
Actually, that Fw looks more like an ex-St.St./JG 51 machine, possibly passed on to a training unit by war's end.
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Jim and Kutscha,
This aircraft is definitely from Stab./SG10 - it has all the tactical markings associated with it being an aircraft of a ground attack unit from Luftflotte 4 - 50cm yellow cowl band and yellow rudder.
It's markings match the other 5 identified Stab./SG10 aircraft and Budweiss was the last operating base of Stab. and III./SG10 - Actually by rights, they'd been incorporated into Luftflottenkommando 6 by the war's end, so should've deleted the yellow ID markings (but I suspect they didn't have the time or inclination to bother).
Only II./JG51 were operating under Luftflotte 4 at this time (and actually they'd been disbanded, along with St./JG76, in April and merged into II./JG52) and they didn't operated the Fw 190.
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Originally Posted by Kutscha
Why the '70 on the nose.
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My own personal view is that the engine was a replacement taken from an Ung.SG (Hungarian Schlachtgruppe) aircraft - whose aircraft carried full luftwaffe markings (German balken and hakenkrauze (not Hungarian), plus Luftflotte 4 ID markings) with the aircraft's number marked in this way - this is confirmed on other aircraft of Ung.SG. in the same time frame.
Cheers,
Chris