Please tell us more about this. AWESOME!! I've always lusted after a 190 simply amazing I didn't even know you could do a replica.
Here's some information on the replicas, and some photos on the last link.
Flug + Werk reproductions[edit]
Starting in 1997 a small German company, Flug + Werk
GmbH,
[9] began work on new Fw 190 A-8s; a run of 20 kits were produced. These planes are new reproduction builds from the ground up, using many original dies, plans, and other information from the war. The construction was sub-contracted to
Aerostar SA of
Bacău, Romania; both companies have been involved in a number of
warbird replica projects.
Werk numbers continued from where the German war machine left off, with the new Fw 190 A-8s being labeled "Fw 190 A-8/N" (N for
Nachbau: "replica"). Some of these new Fw 190s are known to be fitted with the original tail wheel units from the Second World War; a small cache of tail gear having been discovered. In November 2005, the first flights were completed.
Ironically, since the BMW 801 engines are no longer available, a Chinese licensed Soviet-designed engine, the
Shvetsov ASh-82FN 14-cylinder twin-row radial engine of similar configuration and slightly smaller displacement (41.2 litres versus 41.8) to the original BMW powerplants, which powered some of the Fw 190s opposition: the
La-5 and
La-7, powers the new Fw 190 A-8/N.
Flugwerk was also instrumental in the restoration of perhaps the only Fw 190 A-9 in existence. The aircraft is based at the Everett, Washington-based
Flying Heritage Collection and is flown at the FHC Open Days.[
citation needed]
A Fw 190 A-8/N participated in the Finnish war movie
Tali-Ihantala 1944, painted in the same markings as
Oberst Erich Rudorffer's aircraft in 1944.
[10] The movie was released in December 2007.
[11]
In
Dijon,
France; another Flug Werk-built Fw 190 (F-AZZJ) is based with owner Christophe Jacquard. It was assigned the production number 990013, and first flew on 9 May 2009. It sea-landed and was severely damaged on 9 June 2010 near
Hyères after an engine failure; pilot Marc Mathis escaped uninjured.
[12]
A Fw 190 A-8/N is in the collection of the
Tri-State Warbird Museum in
Batavia, Ohio. It was bought by an Indiana doctor, and later donated to the museum. It is currently undergoing repairs to replace the engine and return it to flight status.
[13]
For the 2010 Reno Air Races a Flug Werk-built
FW 190 A-9 "White 14" entered the unlimited competition in stock configuration, thus not likely to challenge the highly modified racers. It was constructed by "Flugzeugbau", construction #: 980 574 (painted on tail 980574), its registration number is N190RF and is currently located at the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, CA.
As part of the run of 20 examples, FlugWerk also produced a limited number of 'long nose' Fw 190D examples.
Work was recently completed on a Fw 190 D-9, powered by a modified
Allison V-1710 V-12, the powerplant of the
P-39 Airacobra, another foe of the Fw 190 often flown by Soviet forces (Lend-Lease) in World War II. This aircraft, presented as "Black 12", an Fw 190 D-9 flown by Leutnant Theo Nibel in the 10. / JG 54, and lost due to a bird strike on the morning of 1 Jan 45 during Operation Bodenplatte, is a reproduction Fw 190D-9 Dora (WNr. 210079). It is now located in the Cottbus Hangar of the
Military Aviation Museum in Pungo, Virginia, USA.
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