Fw 190 and Erla factory

[Pawel Burchard]

Is it possible that Fw 190A-2/3 were produced and/or modified by Erla factory?

kind regards,
Pawel

[Rabe Anton]

Hallo Pawel!

No Fw 190As were produced by Erla. One example known through photos apparently repaired at Erla VII Antwerp, but it is also known that Focke Wulf repair was not a regular thing there.

RA

[Pawel Burchard]

I've got a document (handwritten) from technical section of Spanish 15./51 from July 1943 giving two or three W.Nr. of unit's Fw 190. There is a word in parenthesis behind W.Nr. that looks similar to 'erla' but now I think it may be Spanish word 'cola' - and that probably means that number (W.Nr.) was placed on tail of the aircraft and was not a/c id number.

kind regards,
Pawel

[fran]

Hello Pawel,
Yes, 'cola' means tail in spanish. It is posible to see a scan of the docs?
Thank you
Fran

Originally Posted by Pawel Burchard

I've got a document (handwritten) from technical section of Spanish 15./51 from July 1943 giving two or three W.Nr. of unit's Fw 190. There is a word in parenthesis behind W.Nr. that looks similar to 'erla' but now I think it may be Spanish word 'cola' - and that probably means that number (W.Nr.) was placed on tail of the aircraft and was not a/c id number.

kind regards,
Pawel

[Pawel Burchard]

No problem with scans, I'll try to post them today. There are couple of Fw 190s listed by W.Nr. on 9-Jul-1943:
359
288
5286
3410
510

Can anybody identify them by subtype and earlier/later Luftwaffe or Spanish service?

kind regards,
Pawel

[Pawel Burchard]

And here they are.

[RT]

All these planes hv to come from JG51 nd I guess are all A-2,

359 a A-2 hs been damaged on 180442 with LZA Leignitz
288 a A-2 or A-3
510 a A-2 100 % loss with 15.JG51 on 120843
3410 a A-5 ????,
5286 a A-2, hard-land. on 300742 with III.JG2 15%, + belly-landed on 200343 with 7.JG51 25%

Interesting is that no-one of the crafts repaired on your list, are listed has damaged by gen. loss-report

remi

[Pawel Burchard]

Originally Posted by RT

Interesting is that no-one of the crafts repaired on your list, are listed has damaged by gen. loss-report

The answer seems simple - the listing gives service jobs done on armament installations of the a/c.

Thank you,
Pawel

[fran]

Originally Posted by Pawel Burchard

The answer seems simple - the listing gives service jobs done on armament installations of the a/c.

Thank you,
Pawel

That's right, I have readed the docs and only refers to armaments servicing.
Pawel, thanks for the scans.

Regards
Fran

[RT]

Yes, very simple to read spanish indeed, but why to use "cola" ???
Any idea of what is the EPAD..

remi