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Re: Fw-189 update
If I were the "new owner" I would restore it for stastic display, or at the most for taxying on a nice grass field (like the Lancaster "Just for Jane", for example).
Regarding it being 100% original or not, I guess that not all preserved machines in Museums are 100% originals....some do have spare parts taken from other machines (eg: "Friday the 13th" Halifax), etc...Some parts do need being replaced by new built ones (using the blue prints), etc...Am not a specialist, but it take time and money to preserve them, even for statistic display. Last time I was on the "Le Bourget Museum" I was trully disgusted to see the Spitfire IX, the P-51D, Fw 190 A and all WW2 machines with an immense amount of dust over them....on an open kind of hangar...Boy I would pay to polish those birds and take care of them....and there they were, lost and forgotten by many....painting getting old, not a coat of polishing, nothing! I saw some of those birds some 30 years before well preserved, stored and polished...and I was disgusted to see them again 30 years later.
From some Members of this Board post here, the NASM do take care of "their birds" like treasors....boy you can watch yourself like on a mirror, on the canopy of his He 219 or the Ar 234....You can say whatever you want about the Americans, but surely they know how to make money, how to keep Historical things, and how to restore old planes...(and how to fight a war!)
Anyway, this is the SOLE Fw 189 A that survived....this is not a machine you find around the corner every day...
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