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FW-190 Crash Site near Leningrad

Very cool! Also the chap who comes into frame gives a good idea of the size of it, something that can be hard to appreciate in fighters unless standing next to them.
 
can you imagine the postwar years when this scene must have been repeated hundreds of times..! that thing looks 100% restore-able to a dedicated team o' fanatics. all those trees must be postwar growth :whistle:
 
Dang right she's restorable. MAAM's P-61 wasn't in half as good a shape and she's sitting on her gear right now. Glacier Girl looked like a crushed soda can when they pulled her out of the ice. Imagine what the boys in Chino could do with that plane.

Brian
 
You are right Brian... that 190 is very restorable. I'd say compaired to our P-61, it's closer to flying than ours is. And our P-61 is back on it's wheels again.

I wonder who'll get the 190 and restore it. It doesn't look like it's been molested too much over the years. Looks like most ot the gauges are still there... which is very surprising.
 
This video was taken in 1990 or 1991. This FW190 was bought by the private owner in the UK (if i am not wrong) and will be flyable (or even "is" at the moment).

Lucas
 
MAAM's P-61 was brought back to the States in 1990, but is nowhere near flyable. So "if" the 190 is restored, it beat ours. ;)
 
Kinda weird... I just did a few searches and I can't find a single recent pic or mention of the Leningrad plane (Werk Nr. 0151227) being added to anybody's museum. It's supposed to be owned by the Flying Heritage Collection in Seattle and undergoing restoration by GossHawk Aviation, but it's not mentioned on their websites. Hmm... Cannibalized for original parts maybe? :confused:
 
There is a long-term Fw190 restoration on-going in the UK.

It's been listed several years running in the 'Warbirds Directory' that Flypast and Aeroplane magazines release periodically. This may be the aircraft.
 
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