History[]
On page 120 of his book Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor - The Airliner that went to War, Juan-Carlos Salgado lists this aircraft as F8+GW.[2] Flown by Oberfeldwebel Karl Wittman, who was taken prisoner with his crew,[3] it went missing on 31 January 1943, during the retreat from Stalingrad.[N 1] Subsequently test flown by Soviet Engineer-Major Gribakin and Colonel Kabanov in the USSR, the aircraft was later put on display in Moscow.[2][N 2]
Notes[]
Sources[]
- ↑ http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/b/94/1/0#1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Luftwaffe Warplane Survivors
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fly Past January 2017 edition