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[edNorth]

Hi all;

This picture and another on edwest´s excellent ebay offerings is Fw 200 Kc-1 W.Nr. 0001 BS+AF - note turret on middle fuselage and gondola under fuselage. I have waited long for images like those to come forward. If a TOCH member wins this ..., please contact me. I have this plane history as (below) ...

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0001 Fw 200 KC-1 / V4 (Ordered by IJNAF 1939 as a Long Range Military Recce Bomber machine with three 7.9 mm MG15 machine guns) DLH ntu; Taken over by Luftwaffe September 1939 - cv Fw 200 C-1 V10 (Hi-Altitude Photograph Recce machine with 5000 km range, armed with MG15 in dorsal turret and more MG15´s in ventral turrets) - coded BS+AF October 1939 - Versuchstelle fúr Höhenfluge (Kommando Rowehl) Berlin/Oranienburg del 13.11.1939 - 1.(F)/Ob.d.L (Kommando Rowehl) Swung off runway when two engines on one wing failed on take off at Jever Airfield, Germany 23.11.1939 (crew of Martin König uninjured but machine was wrecked.. ´Just before an proposed recce sortie to the Iceland area was to be flown´ but its mission was really aiming on the area around Scapa Flow, Orkneys, looking for the Royal Navy Home fleet!)