Savoia Marchetti S.79 wearing strange Luftwaffe Markings/Camouflage

[Dénes Bernád]

Originally Posted by Clinton78

Another 2 Profiles of CQ+HO...

Is CQ+HO really correct? Last letter is uncertain...

[Clint Mitchell]

Just trying to work out what paints the Yugoslavs who repainted the aircraft from Italian colours to the colours shown in the photo might of had available to them.

Clint

[Clint Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Dénes Bernád

Is CQ+HO really correct? Last letter is uncertain...

Not sure Bernad? I just presumed it was CQ+HO as so many people before me have?

Clint

[Dénes Bernád]

I was asking because apparently CQ+HO was a Klemm Kl 35.

[Clint Mitchell]

Really! It gets better and better. What else could it be and where would be the best place to look for the proper code? So what else could the partially hidden last character be? Q again?, S, G, C,

Clint

[Stig Jarlevik]

Hi Newcomer

Do you by any chance have the serial numbers of the 45 SM.79 bought by Jugoslavia in 1939?

If I understand you correctly your sources claim that this SM.79 was captured by the Germans in 1941 and the German code CQ+H? was given at that time before it was handed over to Croatia as 701 later in 1941?

Or is the implication that Luftwaffe aquired it by some means from Croatia later in the war?

Also could any of our Italian friends advice why on earth every Italian author in the past has so totally mislabelled the photo. I have seen it listed as taken in 1942 and post 1943 armistice with the Allies....

Cheers
Stig

[Clint Mitchell]

Hi Dénes

The database over at LEMB has the aircraft as follows:

Listing

CQ+HA HeinkelHe111 VIP transport in the Luftflotte 4 d
CQ+HA JunkersJu52 /3m geW.Nr.5989W.Nr.5989 D0025 d
CQ+HA JunkersW34 FFS A/B 121 d
CQ+HB Focke WulfFw58
CQ+HB HeinkelHe111 D0074/68 d
CQ+HC Focke WulfFw58 Wetterflugstelle Konigsberg
CQ+HG DornierDo17 Z-2W.Nr.4187W.Nr.4187later DN-61 Finland
CQ+HH JunkersJu52 /3m first D-ASCKFlugber./Luftflotte 4
CQ+HI JunkersJu52 /3m
CQ+HK SiebelFh104W.Nr.879W.Nr.879 M0002/8/17
CQ+HO Savoia MarchettiS.79
CQ+HQ KlemmKL35 D0077
CQ+HR CantZ.1007 d
CQ+HR KlemmKL35 FFS A/B 24 D0077 d
CQ+HS KlemmKL35W.Nr.1465W.Nr.1465 F0088 -1943-03-02
CQ+HT KlemmKL35 CQ+HUKlemmKL35 Schule/FAR.53 B0002
CQ+HW KlemmKL35
CQ+HY CaudronC.445 FFS A 12
CQ+HZ FieselerFi156

What is your source?

Thanks

Clint

[Dénes Bernád]

It's a comprehensive database I have access to and which I trust.

[Pilot]

Do you by any chance have the serial numbers of the 45 SM.79 bought by Jugoslavia in 1939?

Of course. there is list like that, with included vene engine and machine gun serial numbers.

Cheers

[Clint Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Dénes Bernád

It's a comprehensive database I have access to and which I trust.

Thank you Dénes

I shall inform the guys who look after the LEMB database of the possible mix-up. In your opinion what do think the code has a strong chance of being?

Thanks again

Clint