Help Identify Aircraft Tail Panel

[Schirmmutze]

Hi, I was hoping to aquire this panel in the near future but first, I'd like to find out from what aircraft it's from. The card in the frame claims it's from a shot down FW190 but I don't think that's true. It doesn't match at all and I've had that confirmed by a chap involved in restoring an FW190 in the USA. Doesn't seem to match a 109 either so I'm a bit lost. Can anyone help?
Cheers
Ben

[phil]

yes i can help you contact me offboard pls
junkers@londoner.zzn.com

[Jon]

Come on then Ben, don't keep us it from us any longer what have you established about this.

[Schirmmutze]

Jon, all I've managed to find out so far is that it's not 190 or 109, probably not 110 and that's it, I'm stuck!

[Alex Smart]

Hi,

Can you show it in different positions please ?

It may be the wrong way up.

It does say that it was 1942 and found in the Boiler room of a school (?) by the then caretaker (?) who is named.

Alex

[Schirmmutze]

That's right Alex but as a Third Reich collector, I've learn't to buy the item, never the story, unless there is concrete proof.
Here's the piece in all the possible angles..

[Schirmmutze]

Ok, I'll try a different line of questions to see if it can help. Can anyone norrow down the possible date of manufacture based on the design of Swastika? Am I right in saying that tail fin insignia outlined in black was early war production?

[stephen f. polyak]

What's the crash/school location named on the card? It looks like "Wildtham"? Where's that?

Identification of tail panels can be a challenge. Some possible pointers that when linked may lead to a/c type determination or elimination:

1) Location and date on card (if correct).

2) Style and size of swastika.

3) Paint colors and patterns.

4) Rivet patterns and back side structure (sometimes removed).

The panel has some very distinctive boundry features as made; e.g., an inside curve and straight edges (note lengths and angles). These details should certainly help if compared to profile line drawings of candidate a/c.

Good luck, and let let us know if you determine the type.

[Jon]

What a beauty, i have seen many fakes in the past but looking at this albeit from a PC, this looks to be a genuine relic.
Why has it been discounted as being 190 or 109, also give us the school name and location then the rest should be easy.

[Alex Smart]

Hello Again,

I found this School link and it has history of the School and Caretakers name
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~the.sc...wshistory.html

The School is it seems still in use. So perhaps contact can be made, and perhaps a small peice of the school's history can be returned to it.
There is the post war conection with the Headmaster being ex RAF, and perhaps it was then that this artifact was framed and captioned although with the wrong year.

Alex