A fuselage section has been put on show and wrecks are being
investigated to try and find more useful parts. Three designs by the
Klemm company show the development of their monoplanes.
A new exhibition hall was recently completed and many interesting
types have now been put on show along with smaller items. More items
are still in store and hopefully further exhibition areas will be acquired
to show these.
Arado Ar 79B-1 D-EMVT (0047)
Arado Ar 96B-1 U+CF (4081) – with parts from c/n 4210.
Avro 683 Lancaster B.III JA914 – starboard wing and undercarriage
only.
Bücker Bü 131B Jungmann A-43 (55)
Bücker Bü 181C-2 Bestmann RM+HE (501659/FR-38)
Cessna F172P D-ECJB (F17202087)
De Havilland U-6A Beaver 58-2020 (1350)
Dornier Do 27B-1 D-ENKN (191)
Douglas C-47B Skytrain 45-0951 (16954/34214)
Fieseler Fi 103A-1
Fieseler Fi 156C-3/trop Storch (S 14) Fv3810/D-ENTE (110062)
Focke-Achgelis Fa 330A-1 Bachstelze 100345 (100345)
Focke-Wulf A 16 (R) ‘D-437’
Focke-Wulf Fw 44J Stieglitz (Sk 12) SE-CLC (51)
Fokker D VII – fuselage frame only.
Fokker Dr I (R) ‘213/17’
Gotha Go 242A – fuselage frame only.
Halberstadt CL IV – front fuselage only.
Halberstadt CL IV (C 24) D-71 (1447)
Heinkel He 162A-1 120076 (120076)
Horten Ho IIL D-10-125 (6)
Ilyushin Il-2 7945 – front fuselage only.
Jacobs Meise (D.F.S. 108-70) D-7504 (3)
Jeannin Stahltaube A.180/14 (76)
Junkers Ju 52/3m te D-AZAW (7220)
Junkers Ju 87R-2 L1+BL (5856)
Junkers Ju 88A-5 CF+VP 0886146 – with tail from Ju 88G-1 c/n 714628.
Klemm L 25 b F-PCDA (138)
Klemm Kl 35D D-EDOD (1917)
Klemm Kl 107C D-ECOH (129)
Lilienthal Grosser Doppeldecker (R)
Lilienthal Kleiner Schlagflügel-Apparat (R)
Lilienthal Normal-Segelapparat (R)Co-operation between the two countries resulted in a 1913 Jeannin
Stahltaube and a 1917 Albatros B IIa (L 30) being restored in Berlin in
the 1980s. The former remained in Germany and the latter returned to
Poland. Hopefully more of the historic German aircraft stored at
Krakow may return home in the future.
The Halberstadt CL IV on show was one of a fleet used in the 1920s
by Luftverkehr P. Strähle based at Stuttgart. Several airframes were
stored at Schondorf in 1939 where they mostly remained until taken
to the USA in 1982. The aircraft were obtained by the USAF Museum
which agreed that the Halberstadts moved to Berlin for restoration.
One aircraft has stayed in Germany and the others have since returned
to the USA.
A similar arrangement with the National Air and Space Museum
once found a number of Horten gliders in the museum workshops but
only one now remains in Germany – the rest have gone back to
America. At Templehof Airport the Berlin Airlift is commemorated with
a display of a C-54 in period colours. More aircraft from the collection
were on show in the terminal building at Templehof and others,
including the Boeing 707, can be seen at Tegel. A hangar at Gatow is
used as a store and the former Argus engine works serves a depot and
a restoration centre. The Eardley Billing replica was built by the late
Harold Best Devereux for the film ‘Those Magnificent Men in their
Flying Machines’. The aircraft was flown in the film by the German
team.
The prototype Arado 79 made its maiden flight in 1937 and the
type set several records prior to the outbreak of World War II. Built in
1939, the example in the collection flew in the Saar and Germany until
- After many years in store in the Göppingen area with Fritz Ulmer
it was acquired by the museum in 1995.
The pre-war Junkers Ju 52 spent a long period in Spain before
returning home. The Bücker Bestmann has just been restored to its
original Luftwaffe colours. The museum has now obtained two Junkers
Ju 87s and a pair of Messerschmitt Bf 110s. These aircraft were brought
to England from crash sites in Russia and then made their way to New
Zealand before arriving in Berlin in 1997.
Other World War II machines are being found. Two Gotha frames
have been retrieved along with a Henschel Hs 126. When restored they
will be the only complete examples of these types. The Focke-Wulf
Condor was designed as an airliner for Lufthansa and the four-engined
design entered service in the late 1930s. When war was declared the
type was modified to serve as along range anti-shipping patrol aircraft.
Udet U-10 D-452 is displayed at the Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin. [Doug Revell]