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Pour notre amis Français: SNCAC NC.900

huub vink

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In the immediate post-war period, the French Armee de l'Air operated FW 190 fighters (French designation NC.900). 65 FW 190s were built in 1945 and 1946 by the Société Nationale de Construction Aéronautiques du Centre (S.N.C.A.C) at Cravant. Between 600 and 900 people worked at Cravant, and the facility was also known as camp 918. Cravant had been a Luftwaffe repair facility, and 127 FW 190 fuselages and 162 wings of FW 190 A-4s, A-5s, and A-8s were captured there by the Allies in October 1944. About 100 BMW 801s were found at Dordogne, and the French planned to assemble 125, under the designation AACr-6, or NC.900. The first NC.900 was flown on 1 March 1945, but there were many problems with the new aircraft. Sabotaged airframe parts and the use of hastily recycled metals meant many aircraft were of poor quality. Armee de l'Air FW 190s only saw service for a few years, before more modern fighters were acquired. The principal operator of the NC.900 was GC 111/5 Normandie Niemen, which received just fourteen NC.900s. They flew with the unit for 18 months. A majority of the remaining 51 NC.900s were used by the CEV (centre d'essais en vol) at Brétigny. The final flight by a French NC.900 was on 22 June 1949.
(source: http://fw190.hobbyvista.com/foreign.htm)

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The Focke-Wulf which is on display in the Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace du Bourget (National French Aviation and Space museum at Bourget) is actually a NC.900.
For some really nice pictures from the original aircrafts: http://www.histavia21.net/Cravant/cravant3.htm .

Cheers,
Huub
 
This repaint has just been uploaded here and at Avsim and will be available once approved by the administrators.

When you want to know some more about the circumstances these aircrafts were repaired and build in the underground factory of Cranant, just click this => link <= and this => link <=.

Cheers,
Huub
 
that Landing shot with the rudder twisted to the right....
drooooool!
that bird looks sooooo complicated to fly!
:guinness::gameon::gameon:

*attention charge explosive* behind the Pilots head...:applause:
 
Hekko Huub,

Thank you very much for this new repaint for CH Fw190A-5. Thank you also for the historical informations about the NC.900 variant. I like the french stencils you have added to thiis textures. This add to the wonderful and realistic art work you have done. Bravo

Grand merci pour toutes ces superbes livrées.

Benoit
 
Question?

i get model not found
should this be the sim=CH_Fw190A5_MGFF
or is it me?:isadizzy:
H
 
Hmmm, might have to dig up an old issue with an article about the French 190's and see if there are more profiles.. ;)
 
Glad you like it guys, it is always difficult to make a repaint from an single coloured aircraft a bit interesting....

Well nothing personal Henry, but talking about dumbos.... I originally started the repaint for the version with the additional machine guns in the wings (MGFF). When I was nearly finished I saw the picture below, which clearly shows the French NC.900 did not have these addtional machine guns in the wings. So I had to change the panel lines but also the scratches and other small damages on and around the panels to access the additional guns..... When I was about ready to upload checked the repaint again and noticed there where still black power marks where the guns weren't anymore :isadizzy:

So obviously you're not the only dumbo ;)

Huub

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