Warplanes preserved in the USA: Ohio: Dayton, National Museum of the USAF: Fieseler Fi-156C-1 Storch, Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Sandpiper, Junkers Ju-52/3M (CASA 352L)

Warplanes preserved in the USA: Ohio: Dayton, National Museum of the USAF: Fieseler Fi-156C-1 Storch, Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Sandpiper, Junkers Ju-52/3M (CASA 352L)

(NMUSAF Photos)

Fieseler Fi-156C-1 Storch (Wk. Nr. TBC), 5F+YK.  The aircraft on display in the NMUSAF is painted as the Storch used by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in North Africa.  Built in 1940, it was exported to Sweden where it remained until 1948. The last German to fly it before its acquisition by the donors in 1973 was German Second World War ace Erich Hartmann.  The aircraft was donated to the museum by Lt. Col. Perry A. Schreffler and Maj. Robert C. Van Ausdell, Santa Paula, California, and was delivered to the museum in 1974.

(NMUSAF Photos)

Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Sandpiper. The Fa 330 on display in the NMUSAF is one of very few in existence of the 200 constructed.  It was bought to the United States at the end of the Second World War.

(NMUSAF Photos)

Junkers Ju-52/3M (CASA 352L) Trimotor (Serial No. T2B-244), 901-20, C/N 135.

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