Photos 11-3 - Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum

edwest · #1 3rd November 2008, 22:53

musec04 · #2 3rd November 2008, 23:39

Hello All,

Can anyone definitively identify the Waco (YQC-6?) floatplane? at http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=180301234582 Is it just me or does the Balkenkreuz appear disproportionatly large. Is it a red Cross perhaps?

Once again Ed, a very intersting find.

Regards,

Clint

edwest · #3 4th November 2008, 00:31

Hi Clint,

Thank you for identifying that floatplane. I had no idea.

Ed

Primoz · #4 4th November 2008, 17:40

Is this an Austrian Fiat CR.32 ?
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=370105961762

musec04 · #5 4th November 2008, 21:02

Hello Primoz,

If I read the number on the card correctly that is shown with the photo,183 then this would make the aircraft a CR.30.

Regards,

Clint

Seaplanes · #6 4th November 2008, 22:55

The Waco floatplane was a type YKS-7 c/n 4603. It was reg. 23.04.37 to Vest-Norges Flyveselskap AS in Bergen. Sold to the company AS Sönnico in Oslo 09.12.38. Taken by the Germans when they occupied Norway in April 1940. It was then painted white with red cross markings in order to bring a supply of medicare to from Oslo to Northern Norway then still under Norwegian/Allied control. The plane reached Bodø where the crew were arrested. Later it was brought to Tromsø. Sold to Sweden in July 1943 and reg. SE-ANG. In early 1945 the plane was on loan to the british intelligence organisation SIS' office in Stockholm for the purpose of bringing supplies to the listening post along the swedish-finnish border to overlook the German withdrawal from Finland. On the first mission, flown by Norwegian pilot and SIS employee, Halvor Björneby, the plane crashed on a frozen lake in Northern Sweden. Quite an interesting story.

musec04 · #7 5th November 2008, 08:47

Hello Seaplanes,

Thanks very much for the extensive reply on the Waco. Have you any further information on the German use of the machine between April 1940 and its sale to Sweden inJuly 1943. Was it civil registered or was it operated by the Luftwaffe?

Regards,

Clint

Seaplanes · #8 5th November 2008, 09:20

There are no indications of any Luftwaffe use of this aircraft. It remained stored until the sale to Sweden.

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