Werk Nr 2894 in DDL service[1]
Werk Nr 2894[N 1] was a Focke-Wulf Fw 200A-02
History
Ordered, along with Werk Nr 2993, by the Danish DDL (Det Danske Luftfartselskab) on 5 March 1938,[2] Werk Nr 2894 was delivered on 14 July, recieving registration serial OY-DAM and the name Dania.[3]
Renamed Wolf, and registered as G-AGAY.[4] after being seized while on British soil, following the German invasion of Denmark in 1940, the aircraft was briefly operated by BOAC. Subsequently impressed into RAF service[5] as DX177, the aircraft was flown in the UK until it crashed at White Waltham on 12 July 1941, [6] before being scrapped in Jan 1942.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Listed on Luftwaffe Warplanes Survivors as Werk Nr 2984.
Sources
- ↑ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Focke-Wulf_Fw_200_OY-DAM_Dania.jpg
- ↑ Selgado, Juan-Carlos. Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor - The Airliner that went to War. Cheveron Publishing Ltd. 2008. ISBN 978 1 90322 96 3. Page 12
- ↑ Selgado, Juan-Carlos. Page 29
- ↑ Selgado, Juan-Carlos. Page 119
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Fw_200_Condor
- ↑ http://www.oy-reg.dk/register/1814.html
- ↑ Luftwaffe Warplane Survivors