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nthelastweekendofApril,theavia-

tion enthusiasts of the ‘Fliegerwerft’

grouporganisedaveryspecialcele-

bration. To celebrate the eightieth

birthday of their Focke-Wulf 44 Stieglitz and

Messerschmitt108,morethanthirtyflying

classicstraveledtotheidyllicairfieldofOber-

Mörlen, north of Frankfurt. Another eight

examples of the Stieglitz, and four of the Bf

108, were among the aircraft attending.

StieglitzD-EMOFwasbuiltinSwedenat

AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aero-

planavdelning (AB Swedish Railway Work-

shops Aeroplane Department) as a Sk12 in

1937andcametoGermanyinthemid-fif-

tiesafteritsserviceintheSwedishAir

Force.TodayitfliesinanauthenticFocke-

Wulf scheme from the thirties. Messer-

schmitt 108 D-EBFW was built in the same

year(serialnumber1561)inAugsburgand

istheoldestsurvivingexample.Afterres-

toration some years ago, the members of

the‘Fliegerwerft’grouppaintedtheir

‘Taifun’inthecoloursofthehistoric‘D-

IBFW’.In1938,theoriginaldarkblueD-

IBFW flew 44,000 kilometres through

NorthandSouthAmericaasacompany

demonstrator.

Amongtheguestaircraftwerenewlyre-

storedBf108D-EOIO andKlemm25ofthe

‘Flugsportgruppe Hanns Klemm’ from

Eutingen in southern Germany. It is one of

the oldest aircraft still flying in Germany.

Stefan Schmoll

Special birthday party

in Germany

LEFT:‘Stiegtlitz’ means

‘Goldfinch’ in German.

BELOW:D-ELLM was built in

FranceafterthewarasaNord

1002 Pingouin II.

[All images Stefan Schmoll]

BELOW:Like the Tiger Moth, the

Fw 44 was not equipped with flaps.

D-ENOY is owned by Holger

Steindorf from Kehl.

This Cessna C195 Businessliner wears a Mid-West

Airlines scheme and is owned by Dirk Sadlowski.