Photo of the week
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This midweeks photos.
And two shots of La Luz y Los Angeles Mining Co., Nicaraguaʼs Curtiss Model 53 Condor CO Transport (r/n NC985V) on the ground, May 11, 1937.
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This weekends photo.
14 new Seattle-built B-17F-27-BO's seen at the USAAF Modification Center in Tulsa, located at Air Force Plant No 3, run by Douglas.
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This midweeks photos, taken at NAS Willow Grove, Pennsylvania circa 1949.
Arado Ar 196A-5
(Werk Nr 623183) Built by Fokker, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1944. Bordfliegergruppe 196, Geschwaderkennung T3+CH.
The Allies recovered two Ar 196A-5s found on board the German battlecruiser Prinz Eugen when she surrendered at Copenhagen
Denmark. When the US Navy took custody of Prinz Eugen, they were more interested in the catapult system used to launch the floatplane rather than the Ar 196A-5 but they saved the two aircraft anyway. The ship sailed to the US leaving Bremerhaven, Germany on 13Jan46 and arrived at the Philadelphia Naval Ship Yards on 3 Feb 46. Flight tested off the coast of Delaware. From 1949 it was stored in the open at NAS Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Under deteriorating general conditions its identifier changed successively to TW+SH, T3+HK and GA+DX. In 1989 the aircraft was transferred to the National Museum of Naval Aviation (NMNA), later the National Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola, Florida, being severely damaged in the process. In March 2013 the navies of the USA and Germany reached an agreement by which the aircraft was transported to Germany on loan to the Marinefliegergeschwader 3 ("Graf Zeppelin") for restoration at the Aeronauticum in Nordholz, south of Cuxhaven, Germany. For various reasons, the proposed restoration by the Aeronauticum failed. At the beginning of 2016 the commander of Marinefliegergeschwader initiated the founding of a non-profit association. The task of the Förderverein Arado 196 eV is to restore the Arado 196 at the Aeronauticum. After completion of the restoration the aircraft will go on display in Germany for an indefinite period before return back to the USA.
