Photo captured Fw 190 1945

[S Sheflin]

Hello Rémi,

Thanks for posting this exciting photograph.

I can’t prove, but I think your Fw190 may be the same Fw190F-9, 11+ red or yellow, photographed at Faßberg along with the five famous Me262’s. Note the similar red or yellow plane numerals 11, and what appears to be the merest hint of the same numerals on its wheel covers. Along with matching plane numbers, it also features a right-wingtip-mounted pitot tube, late-war NDW-style camouflage, and a wooden propeller. Finally, notwithstanding the poor quality of the posted print, I believe I see traces of the same flower-style exhaust stack flame suppressor as noted on Fw190F-9 WNr. 440382, 10+ red or yellow, which was also found at Faßberg.

Steve Sheflin

[jim norton]

hi,

like yellow 10 this one was also manufactured at travemunde with lufthansa at the norddeutsche dornier werke. later flown to lubeck-blankensee and ferried to a luftwaffe unit, maybe nsg 20.

all the best
jim