Austrian Fw 44 Stieglitzes

[Petrusja]

Thanks Tom and Simon, great information.

So it is indeed about 64 aircraft including 12 German-built by Fw (there was also German production at AGO, Bücker and Klemm in Halle by the way), but only 20 localy built aircraft completed before March 1938 (c/n 7 through 26).

I guess the register site contains reserved serials never taken up. Even if the other 32 were eventually completed, they would normally not have got OE registrations. It would have made sense to complete them for the Luftwaffe (or export). If there are no signs of them, perhaps construction of these never started.

Tom, I am an editor for AirHistory.net, doing work on the photo database and also writing some articles. I fixed some wrong data about Fw 44s in the database and thought I'd compile an article.

I was suspicious about the number of Austrian aircraft, since there was so little information about them and the time until the Anschluss was so short. The picture is pretty clear now, thanks Tom, and Simon!

If anybody has photos of the Austrian Fw 44s, or any other decent old Fw 44 photos that I could upload on AirHistory, I'd be interested.

Peter