Fully restored to original condition and flying since Dec. 2010 as the only wartime original Fw190 that is airworthy. It flies on a few scheduled days at the Flying Heritage Museum with a limited flight display, and it does not travel from the museum. Read the description and comments. Other flying videos are on YT.
@WARFOX101 It's also decayed and in the Russian woods ;) Oil rad's don't need to be fully opened for flight. Perhaps it was the winter time and wanted to have a hotter engine to get better performance before having to crash land :)
The Fw190A series does not have cowl flaps and used force-air cooling. The oil cooler is inside the armored ring at the front of the cowling and behind the cooling fan, with mechanically adjustable airflow control. The plane went down in the summer (July '43) with a failed engine. Examination of the engine showed scorched metal from high heat and the engine probably failed the from blocked oil lines or block oil passages that were found.
@FiveCentsPlease Just watched a show about the Fw-190 and now I understand how the cooling system works. Kurt Tank was awesome :D Thanks for the heads up
This actual aircraft has been restored, and is now part of Paul Allen's collection at the Flying Heritage Collection in greater Seattle, USA. Go to flyingheritage dt com and look for the aircraft Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-5.
Your'e KINDA SORTA RIGHT. A Stuka is a 'lt bomber' and the FW190 F you are seeing was a Lt Bomber (the replacement for the Junkers JU87). But, no, that is not a STUKA as in Junkers (no gull wing).
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What an incredible find and in such great condition, looks no more than ten years there would have expected it to be completely covered by growth and all moss and green scum but of course maybe it was and this is how it was after all the growth was cleared away from it, cant get over how great condition its in and the paint.. a brilliant find
@michaelberryakabez Трофеи великих битв. 1943 год автор newsblockmtvCopy this name enter into search and you will see many German planes in working order. This film is made in 1943.
Russian Freedom Fighters fought beside Native Europeans to try and liberate Russia from the foreign racist who conquered the Russian people and murder 45 million Ethnic Russian civilians before the 2-WW ever even started.
Racist-Stalin hated ethnic Russia's, Stalin was from Georgia, and Lev Davidovich Bronshtein (Alias, Leon Trotsky) was racist against non Khazar-Ashkanazi-Jews.
Germany helped Russian Fighters try and liberate their people!
It's too early to discuss WWII. We are barely discussing the Skelletons of the Philipine-American War and WWI. Stalin Killed more Russians than Hitler did so who should the Russians admire more---Hitler or Stalin? Stalin did succeed where Trotsk and Sulimann the Magnificant didn't ---he broke into middle Europe. Unfortunately, Stalin killed MILLIONS to do so and stole all the resources/factories--that's why CCCP only lasted 44yrs until its implosion in 1989. It's still f'd up
So if we're thinking logically, that plane must have crashed onto a piece of flat land because the wings were intact and the trees around it were nowhere near 70 years old. So it sat there in plain site for god knows how long before someone come across it?? I would have had that away years ago.
More or less... It went down in a sapling forest and a remote location, with the small trees only damaging the wind leading edges. Russian troops captured the pilot, and possibly removed some of the guns. Otherwise, very little was taken. The summer camouflage paint probably helped to conceal it for some time too.
man you are truly lucky. i would love to come across a prewar plane in the woods behind my house or where i hunt. i only occasionally find a old car or old truck that has been abandoned.
Even in that condition, the parts on that spectacular aircraft are worth a mint. I bet there is still a million rubles in parts from that wreck. Quite a treasure to find in the woods! Why don't I ever find things like that? All I find is double zero's at my locale casino!
This wreck was fully restored, keeping much of the original material. There's no need to part it out when there are so few authentic Fw190 restorations--there's no big demand for parts and the rare engine was toast. Modern technology makes it just as easy to duplicate many parts, so expecting to make a mint on a wreck isn't realistic. It's worth much more now that it's restored as an original example, but I'd wager that more was spent on the restoration than the market value.
These planes typically don't sell for as much as they do after they have been restored. It's not a for-profit hobby when so much money is spent on the rebuild.
Indeed it is and it is amazingly intact with only a few bits takel by vandals. It must have landed on clear ground and the woodland grew up around it.
The plane crashed from engine failure (blocked oil lines) and the restoration team noted how the engine internals were blue and scorched from heat. A total of six core BMW engines were located and used to build an airworthy BMW 801 engine, but I don't know how much of the original engine was used for parts.
It's now known that the pilot survived and was taken as a POW by the Russians. He worked as a mechanic before becoming a pilot, and his skills as an electrician made him useful while POW. He returned to Germany in 1949 and passed away before his Fw190 was restored. His son provided info, photos, and log books to the restoration team.
Read the description with the video above. It includes info on the plane and the crash. Additional info came from several sources, including from members of the restoration team.
Its amazing that there is no apparent vandalism to this aircraft. If this say, fell in London or anywhere on mainland Europe, there would be a million graffitti "tags" on it. Well done Russia for taming your civilian population to refrain from such acts of vandalism, even though a german aircraft is something that could easily and some would say "quite justifiably) be vandalized considering the harsh historical realtities.
@Stealthkeys77 people often underestimate how immensely massive russia is and the fact that even during the height of WW2, vast areas of the eastern front were simply uninhabited as neither side could physically occupy the entire length of it. so it doesnt really surprise me that you could lose a fighter for 60 years, god knows what sort of treasures are still out there waiting to be found.
Just a few photos. I've not seen any video of the recovery but it's possible they are screen captures. It was lifted by helicopter, the wings removed and it was put on a truck so there isn't much to see.
i swear europe gets all of that stuff there needs to be a war in NORTH AMERICA NOT USA IN GENERAL so we can find stuff like that and civil war stuff has all been found
I'll bet that the Russkies who found this plane drank the brake fluid as soon as they found it. How do I know this? Air cooled engine = no antifreeze to drink.
Hard to believe that it sat there for 45 years untouched.
If anyone had known about it before that, it would have been brutally ravaged by souvenir hunters.
Google "Lady Be Good" and learn about the B-24 that was raped by souvenir hunters just a few years after its discovery in 1959, despite being 400 miles inside the most hostile desert on the planet.
well russian forests are quite big and wild, it's possible that no one encountered it for 45 years. and it's quite easier to find a black spot in a brightly-colored desert than to find something like this hidden by trees
Restoration to exact original condition and full airworthy status completed in Dec. 2010 after many years of work. It now resides with the Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, WA where it will only fly a few times each year at the museum. It is the only "original" WWII Fw190 currently flying. One more example will be complete in coming years, followed by a third.
Well, was. It was removed for restoration in 1991 and is now flying. The remote area and sapling trees which grew around the aircraft, combined with the wartime summer earth-tone camouflage from JG54 helped to hide the aircraft. The Russians knew the wreck was there and captured the pilot. The Germans had map coordinates for wrecks for potential salvage but this one was left where it was.
The FW190 is now on display at the Flying Heritage Centre at Paine Field, Everett, Washington. It looks beautiful! He also has a WWll combat veteran Me109E3 which was recovered from Calais. It was flying two weekends ago with a Spit Mk V and a Spit Mk 9. Brilliant! I take my hat off to the owners and restorers off these old aircraft that spend lots of time and money keeping these amazing machines airworthy and flying them so that we can enjoy the sights and sounds of amazing machines.
The Russians captured the pilot, and possibly removed some of the guns so the crash wasn't unknown. The wreck was likely left and forgotten after war. The summer JG54 forest camo paint probably helped conceal it in the dense trees. Small parts were missing, so it had been visited from time to time.
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Yes. They were saplings when it force-landed in 1943 after engine failure. But they were big enough do minor damage the wing leading edge at that time.
Upper cowl guns were missing and thought to have been taken by Russian troops during WWII after the pilot was captured. The master compass was also missing. It's obvious that a number of the cockpit instruments were removed long ago. After this video, somebody nicked the control stick and an aileron, but it was still a very intact recovery.
The wreck was not worth that much as-is and was not sold for that much. The high prices paid for vintage aircraft are for restored examples, after millions spent on the restoration work by the seller.
@TonyMcDark they found the plane in 1989 this video was taken in 1989 and according to the description they are restoring it so I think they moved it by now. But to last 40+ years in that swamp is amazing I agree.
that is a gold mine if you knew who to sell it to. me on the other hand would fix it and learn to fly it and get my pilots listens. i want a me 262 but that will never happen. i do know where a underground bunker is tho. the old ss and the new guy are guarding it tho. thank you grandfather for telling me. asshole ss humon. im glad he died.
The wreck was not sold for a huge amount of money compared with the value of the plane now after restoration. Restorers don't throw money away to profiteers. Five replica Me262s have been built and sold. Very little has emerged from the underground bunkers that isn't water-logged junk, but never say never because some bunkers have not been explored.
Yes, they fired it up with the intention of flying it, but the weather didn't cooperate...next flight is scheduled for August 6, 2011. They are planning to fly it alongside their Bf-`109E.
Not as much as some people assume. More money is spent on the restoration than the wreckage and the selling price is reflected in the finished product. Most collectors don't throw money around to profiteers when they could also build an example from scratch with enough resources.
Partial restoration by first owner. Sold to Flying Heritage Collection, Everett, WA. Over many years painstakingly restored to exact original condition and to airworthy. First test flight on Dec. 1, 2010. After test flights and paint, it is now at the museum. The first public debut flight is June 18, 2011, but check with the museum first.
I'm glad the pilot survived the crash. I can't imagine anything creepier than stumbling across a German WWII plane in a forest with a body still inside of it..
@crazyfvck indeed. what a great story as well. Because of the size of the land and the brutal long war, I'd imagine that it's still possible to find a crashed plane with the remains of the pilot inside in Russia or the Ukraine even today. Chances are probabaly higher to find a Soviet plane... Tanks and other vehicles from the war are still getting pulled out of rivers and marshes all over Russia. I think it's difficult to grasp the epic nature of the war on the East Front.
I WANT TO GO TO EUROPE SO MUCH :3
CSnakeV 6 days ago
this would probably scare the shit out of me, walking casually in a forest and see a wreckage of any old WW2 plane... F that
JustAnOrdinarySimmer 2 weeks ago
Oh so THATS where I parked it.
XxAmericanLuchadorxX 2 weeks ago
Germany/Austria has the best planes, cars, pilots, drivers. Cool!
AccordGTR 3 weeks ago
that always makes for a interesting day when someone sabotages your plane by blocking the oil lines, good times, good times.
dntlss 1 month ago
Who owns this now ? and is it being restored ???
mark24875218 1 month ago
@mark24875218
Fully restored to original condition and flying since Dec. 2010 as the only wartime original Fw190 that is airworthy. It flies on a few scheduled days at the Flying Heritage Museum with a limited flight display, and it does not travel from the museum. Read the description and comments. Other flying videos are on YT.
FiveCentsPlease 1 month ago
i am astonished at how well the FW survived the crash and the years... wow...
hambone307 1 month ago
*63 years later*...*pilot walks back to plane* OH!!!! that's where i parked it.
peteristehbest 1 month ago
id almost be less excited if it was a UFO
icefighter35 1 month ago
Just imagine the fear of the German pilot as he was going down.
ACE56221 1 month ago
The oil rad is in the closed position.
WARFOX101 1 month ago
@WARFOX101 It's also decayed and in the Russian woods ;) Oil rad's don't need to be fully opened for flight. Perhaps it was the winter time and wanted to have a hotter engine to get better performance before having to crash land :)
Cplblue 1 month ago
@Cplblue Good point, and vary true.
WARFOX101 1 month ago
@Cplblue
The Fw190A series does not have cowl flaps and used force-air cooling. The oil cooler is inside the armored ring at the front of the cowling and behind the cooling fan, with mechanically adjustable airflow control. The plane went down in the summer (July '43) with a failed engine. Examination of the engine showed scorched metal from high heat and the engine probably failed the from blocked oil lines or block oil passages that were found.
FiveCentsPlease 1 month ago
@FiveCentsPlease Just watched a show about the Fw-190 and now I understand how the cooling system works. Kurt Tank was awesome :D Thanks for the heads up
Cplblue 1 month ago
i woulda been a little weirded out if there was a feller in there
bonecollector37 1 month ago
That's just amazing!
DaveWBedford 1 month ago
Wow, I am definitely moving to Russia and go live in woods..!! :O
LuftwaffeMilitaria 1 month ago
@LuftwaffeMilitaria You do that, great idea. Oh btw, bring a jacket.
mrrogue72 1 month ago
This actual aircraft has been restored, and is now part of Paul Allen's collection at the Flying Heritage Collection in greater Seattle, USA. Go to flyingheritage dt com and look for the aircraft Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-5.
atcclears1 2 months ago
if this was in my backyard or forrest near by maby i would like planes a bit more
alexshoot 2 months ago
it looks like what the they call a stuka
Allan17081995 2 months ago
@Allan17081995 its not a stuka is a dive bomber this was a fighter dumb ass
MegaNinjasquirrels 2 months ago
@MegaNinjasquirrels a stuka was a fighter and a bomber if you didnt know
Allan17081995 2 months ago
@Allan17081995
Your'e KINDA SORTA RIGHT. A Stuka is a 'lt bomber' and the FW190 F you are seeing was a Lt Bomber (the replacement for the Junkers JU87). But, no, that is not a STUKA as in Junkers (no gull wing).
Armydicked 2 months ago
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wwwtotalitaerde 2 months ago
Amazing find! The aircraft is virtually intact.
It must have crash landed when there were no trees around. At the time of the crash it must have been an open swampy terrain.
The forest has been taking over the swamp since then...
provocase 2 months ago
SABOTAGE!!!!
99smite 2 months ago
I like how the guy is being careful. i would have sprinted over to it...shit my self when i saw the swasika, then ripped it apart looking for shit
Mikethekiller7 2 months ago
@Mikethekiller7 You'd be a terrible person to do so.
sg777778 2 months ago
nice that there's no skeleton in the cockpit
shows too that there are huge amounts of Russian wilderness where nobody ever goes
SupernalOne 2 months ago
What an incredible find and in such great condition, looks no more than ten years there would have expected it to be completely covered by growth and all moss and green scum but of course maybe it was and this is how it was after all the growth was cleared away from it, cant get over how great condition its in and the paint.. a brilliant find
PangeaSpreads 2 months ago
thats the best way to view a german plane.....in pieces
michaelberryakabez 2 months ago
@michaelberryakabez Трофеи великих битв. 1943 год автор newsblockmtvCopy this name enter into search and you will see many German planes in working order. This film is made in 1943.
Vanyaaynav 2 months ago
@michaelberry Take your racism someplace else.
Russian Freedom Fighters fought beside Native Europeans to try and liberate Russia from the foreign racist who conquered the Russian people and murder 45 million Ethnic Russian civilians before the 2-WW ever even started.
Racist-Stalin hated ethnic Russia's, Stalin was from Georgia, and Lev Davidovich Bronshtein (Alias, Leon Trotsky) was racist against non Khazar-Ashkanazi-Jews.
Germany helped Russian Fighters try and liberate their people!
Freedom3777 2 months ago
@Freedom3777
It's too early to discuss WWII. We are barely discussing the Skelletons of the Philipine-American War and WWI. Stalin Killed more Russians than Hitler did so who should the Russians admire more---Hitler or Stalin? Stalin did succeed where Trotsk and Sulimann the Magnificant didn't ---he broke into middle Europe. Unfortunately, Stalin killed MILLIONS to do so and stole all the resources/factories--that's why CCCP only lasted 44yrs until its implosion in 1989. It's still f'd up
Armydicked 2 months ago
@Freedom3777 ???? what racism my fam are german dont mean i agree with their agendas at that point in history
michaelberryakabez 2 months ago
fkn amazin, even though its a those cnts nazi german bastards piece of shit still amazin
teramasz 2 months ago
how much you made
nickynits 2 months ago
if its a german plane, why are the gauges in english? i havent done any research and im not an expert
G1Pogorider 2 months ago
@G1Pogorider - Where do you see English words on those gauges? The only word that I can see on the gauges is, "Durchladen", which is a German word.
HiTechOilCo 2 months ago
@G1Pogorider they're not in english....
NezbittheGreyKitten 2 months ago
So if we're thinking logically, that plane must have crashed onto a piece of flat land because the wings were intact and the trees around it were nowhere near 70 years old. So it sat there in plain site for god knows how long before someone come across it?? I would have had that away years ago.
miloholbrook 2 months ago
@miloholbrook
More or less... It went down in a sapling forest and a remote location, with the small trees only damaging the wind leading edges. Russian troops captured the pilot, and possibly removed some of the guns. Otherwise, very little was taken. The summer camouflage paint probably helped to conceal it for some time too.
FiveCentsPlease 2 months ago
man you are truly lucky. i would love to come across a prewar plane in the woods behind my house or where i hunt. i only occasionally find a old car or old truck that has been abandoned.
jlane0892 3 months ago
@jlane0892 GET IT OUT OF THERE AND SELL IT1!
iGumbal 2 months ago
Even in that condition, the parts on that spectacular aircraft are worth a mint. I bet there is still a million rubles in parts from that wreck. Quite a treasure to find in the woods! Why don't I ever find things like that? All I find is double zero's at my locale casino!
5inthehole 3 months ago
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FiveCentsPlease 3 months ago
This wreck was fully restored, keeping much of the original material. There's no need to part it out when there are so few authentic Fw190 restorations--there's no big demand for parts and the rare engine was toast. Modern technology makes it just as easy to duplicate many parts, so expecting to make a mint on a wreck isn't realistic. It's worth much more now that it's restored as an original example, but I'd wager that more was spent on the restoration than the market value.
FiveCentsPlease 3 months ago
incredible. what a find.
gtg356y 3 months ago
how much would it be worth ?
terminator499 3 months ago
@terminator499
These planes typically don't sell for as much as they do after they have been restored. It's not a for-profit hobby when so much money is spent on the rebuild.
FiveCentsPlease 3 months ago
@FiveCentsPlease That's sad :( But hey ,when you love something , you don't stop until you reached your goal .
terminator499 3 months ago
I wonder if it still had it's guns.
Stoshua81 3 months ago
i would have jizzed my pants if i saw this!!!
pranker121 3 months ago
What an incredible find that would be! I'd be like a little kid in the candy store for the first time....
Jmpmstrtex 3 months ago
One so wishes to have the money to take the serial plate, and start building up from it :-) Amazing :-)
MrMazz1970 3 months ago
@MrMazz1970
Somebody who has the money has already done just that.
FiveCentsPlease 3 months ago
Butcherbird....FW190...
Wahnsinn was da nach fast 70Jahren alles noch herum liegt...
Gorgoroth439 3 months ago
It's a germany focke wulf fighter plane
Common in the war,unusual to see one now though
oktober250 3 months ago
In Soviet Russia,Plane flies You.
LeBearExtrordinare 3 months ago
the dream of a lifetime. to find a warbird in a forest. amazing.
corrado25877 3 months ago 45
@corrado25877 Or though not if you were a sworn Allie, you would end up smashing it with logs.
class37trash 3 months ago
@corrado25877 wellcome to RusLand forest :) товарищь!
chapaay 2 months ago 8
@chapaay what does tovarits mean?
billlibong 1 month ago
@corrado25877 usually people find birds in the forest not warbirds
YapLee1314 2 months ago
@corrado25877 PACKED WITH GOLD.
mrrogue72 1 month ago
@corrado25877
Indeed it is and it is amazingly intact with only a few bits takel by vandals. It must have landed on clear ground and the woodland grew up around it.
TheSpiritof1969 1 month ago
i could only imagine finding that
MikeMMA93 3 months ago
Wow that is awesome!
Nautical1994 3 months ago
this is such an awesome job
tangokilla11 3 months ago
IS this sexy bitch ready to fly yet?
MagnesiumAlloy 3 months ago
@MagnesiumAlloy
First test flight in Dec. 2010, then delivered to FHC museum and it has performed two public display flights so far.
FiveCentsPlease 3 months ago
Was the pilot still alive ?
Alexvideoclip 3 months ago
@Alexvideoclip
Read the description above. He was captured and made POW, returning to Germany in 1949.
FiveCentsPlease 3 months ago
i want to find one of those in my backyard :D
TtimWh 3 months ago
This plane is now flying in Plaine Washington USA part of Paul Allenstein collection
sgt13echo 3 months ago
@sgt13echo wow wonder if they kept the same engine ? was this a bmw powered one i wonder
rohan9376 3 months ago
@rohan9376
The plane crashed from engine failure (blocked oil lines) and the restoration team noted how the engine internals were blue and scorched from heat. A total of six core BMW engines were located and used to build an airworthy BMW 801 engine, but I don't know how much of the original engine was used for parts.
FiveCentsPlease 3 months ago
@FiveCentsPlease amazing stuff thanks
rohan9376 3 months ago
simply one of the greatest finds i could think of :)
justinpp100 3 months ago
awesome
Ashmansworth 3 months ago
It's flying now since last summer.
IIJG27Rich 3 months ago
remarkable...
demonofrazgriz333 3 months ago
0:47 looks like the pilot survived, the first aid kit hatch is open, or did you guys open it?
paradox795 3 months ago
@paradox795
It's now known that the pilot survived and was taken as a POW by the Russians. He worked as a mechanic before becoming a pilot, and his skills as an electrician made him useful while POW. He returned to Germany in 1949 and passed away before his Fw190 was restored. His son provided info, photos, and log books to the restoration team.
FiveCentsPlease 3 months ago
@FiveCentsPlease Please provide a youtube link thank you!
vexviper 3 months ago
@vexviper
Read the description with the video above. It includes info on the plane and the crash. Additional info came from several sources, including from members of the restoration team.
FiveCentsPlease 3 months ago
It must be pretty frickin' scary to find this! I would have shat my self!!!
fiverats1 3 months ago
Its amazing that there is no apparent vandalism to this aircraft. If this say, fell in London or anywhere on mainland Europe, there would be a million graffitti "tags" on it. Well done Russia for taming your civilian population to refrain from such acts of vandalism, even though a german aircraft is something that could easily and some would say "quite justifiably) be vandalized considering the harsh historical realtities.
Stealthkeys77 3 months ago
@Stealthkeys77 people often underestimate how immensely massive russia is and the fact that even during the height of WW2, vast areas of the eastern front were simply uninhabited as neither side could physically occupy the entire length of it. so it doesnt really surprise me that you could lose a fighter for 60 years, god knows what sort of treasures are still out there waiting to be found.
fludblud 3 months ago
The "coordinates" are probably a number that identifies a square area on the map.
rolfen 4 months ago
is there a vid of recovering this magnificent piece of find!?
coolakiIlen007 4 months ago
@coolakiIlen007
Just a few photos. I've not seen any video of the recovery but it's possible they are screen captures. It was lifted by helicopter, the wings removed and it was put on a truck so there isn't much to see.
FiveCentsPlease 4 months ago
@FiveCentsPlease ok, thanks.
coolakiIlen007 4 months ago
This beautiful bird is now flying again
zinnington 4 months ago
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get it out of there and restore it...
irish89055 4 months ago
get it out of there and restore it...
irish89055 4 months ago
i swear europe gets all of that stuff there needs to be a war in NORTH AMERICA NOT USA IN GENERAL so we can find stuff like that and civil war stuff has all been found
MultiTomahawker 4 months ago
thats cool
Trema13 4 months ago
Russian hd camera
hunterTS4 4 months ago
I'll bet that the Russkies who found this plane drank the brake fluid as soon as they found it. How do I know this? Air cooled engine = no antifreeze to drink.
localcrew 4 months ago
Thanks for the video. very interesting.
captmoonbeam 4 months ago
Hard to believe that it sat there for 45 years untouched.
If anyone had known about it before that, it would have been brutally ravaged by souvenir hunters.
Google "Lady Be Good" and learn about the B-24 that was raped by souvenir hunters just a few years after its discovery in 1959, despite being 400 miles inside the most hostile desert on the planet.
TheDeJureTour 4 months ago
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alexgrinkov 4 months ago
@TheDeJureTour
well russian forests are quite big and wild, it's possible that no one encountered it for 45 years. and it's quite easier to find a black spot in a brightly-colored desert than to find something like this hidden by trees
alexgrinkov 4 months ago
Where is the aircraft now?
glen670618 4 months ago
@glen670618
Restoration to exact original condition and full airworthy status completed in Dec. 2010 after many years of work. It now resides with the Flying Heritage Collection in Everett, WA where it will only fly a few times each year at the museum. It is the only "original" WWII Fw190 currently flying. One more example will be complete in coming years, followed by a third.
FiveCentsPlease 4 months ago
@glen670618 Flying Heritage Collection, 3407 109th Street S.W., in Everett, Washington.
Zyworski 4 months ago
beautiful aircraft
1942PANTHERV 4 months ago
That pilot just got STUFFED
FightDirtyRS 4 months ago
Are you kidding me? it's just been sitting there?
davetileguy 4 months ago
@davetileguy
Well, was. It was removed for restoration in 1991 and is now flying. The remote area and sapling trees which grew around the aircraft, combined with the wartime summer earth-tone camouflage from JG54 helped to hide the aircraft. The Russians knew the wreck was there and captured the pilot. The Germans had map coordinates for wrecks for potential salvage but this one was left where it was.
FiveCentsPlease 4 months ago
So fell Lord Forth
hoppinonabronzeleg 4 months ago
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fight2flyphoto 4 months ago
The FW190 is now on display at the Flying Heritage Centre at Paine Field, Everett, Washington. It looks beautiful! He also has a WWll combat veteran Me109E3 which was recovered from Calais. It was flying two weekends ago with a Spit Mk V and a Spit Mk 9. Brilliant! I take my hat off to the owners and restorers off these old aircraft that spend lots of time and money keeping these amazing machines airworthy and flying them so that we can enjoy the sights and sounds of amazing machines.
robertbrown7726 4 months ago
WOW!!! That Is Amazing!!!
schmitty4ws 4 months ago
The pilot ejected from the airplane and landed in Sweden.
seapeddler 4 months ago
My Father found German uniforms, guns and medals in a forest when he was a teenager in the 50's. They were all piled up under some trees.
northernsoul44 5 months ago
How in the hell can a nearly intact plane avoid detection in a forest for almost a half-century---strange if you ask me.
chuckbuckbobuck 5 months ago
@chuckbuckbobuck
The Russians captured the pilot, and possibly removed some of the guns so the crash wasn't unknown. The wreck was likely left and forgotten after war. The summer JG54 forest camo paint probably helped conceal it in the dense trees. Small parts were missing, so it had been visited from time to time.
FiveCentsPlease 4 months ago
Hey! you found my plane.
BONEZx232 5 months ago
Сколько ж он там пролежал? И пилот отсутствует. Интересно.
XPEHableful 5 months ago
Unbelievable that the plane is so intact after all these years! Must be a pretty hard to reach place that forest.
justjooniin 5 months ago
@justjooniin its german made they dont make shit like other countrys and you must remember it wasnt all forest
mastercheif98612 5 months ago
@mastercheif98612
Hmm, sure... Missed my point totally.
justjooniin 5 months ago
ugh if i had a dime for every old warbird i found laying around in a forest..
Excellent find guys! and an excellent aircraft.
painterjohn512 5 months ago
ill give you $300,000 for it
TheMustang1998 5 months ago
Google "flying heritage collection", go to the FHC website, and see the restored aircraft.
atcclears1 5 months ago
Wow looks in good shape considering.
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wwwtotalitaerde 5 months ago
I CLAIM IT ITS MINE!!
verdemanthe1 5 months ago
can someone give me a link or site so i can see what she looks like today or if she is 100% done?
bad74maverick1 5 months ago
@bad74maverick1
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FiveCentsPlease 5 months ago
@FiveCentsPlease thank you
bad74maverick1 5 months ago
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89ErwinR 5 months ago
Good job prison laborers. If it had been downed by a P-47 there would have been just little pieces strewn around the forest floor.
canon21100 5 months ago
@canon21100 LOL true, just imagine what the nose cannons of a P-38 lighting would do too!
bad74maverick1 5 months ago
Fantastic.
einherje71 5 months ago
I love seeing videos like this.
flipRx7 5 months ago
Great vid, 1227 looks fantastic now that it's back in the air,,,
frazz109 5 months ago
those trees have grown up around the wreck site after the crash?????
RaulMeatFactorys 5 months ago
@RaulMeatFactorys
Yes. They were saplings when it force-landed in 1943 after engine failure. But they were big enough do minor damage the wing leading edge at that time.
FiveCentsPlease 5 months ago
I bet they stripped the guns...i would
mildrew38 5 months ago
@mildrew38
Upper cowl guns were missing and thought to have been taken by Russian troops during WWII after the pilot was captured. The master compass was also missing. It's obvious that a number of the cockpit instruments were removed long ago. After this video, somebody nicked the control stick and an aileron, but it was still a very intact recovery.
FiveCentsPlease 5 months ago
I just got chased by big foot,he was 11feet tall and was carrying a cell phone.
shockwavecorbon 6 months ago
i never find anything good:(
brassbumuk 6 months ago
thats worth millions
weedeaterbike 6 months ago
@weedeaterbike
The wreck was not worth that much as-is and was not sold for that much. The high prices paid for vintage aircraft are for restored examples, after millions spent on the restoration work by the seller.
FiveCentsPlease 6 months ago
@chrysanthos66
Already done and flying as of 2011.
FiveCentsPlease 6 months ago
lucky he survived crash landing in a damn FOREST LOL!
IcyScythe 6 months ago
The crazy thing is that no one went into those woods and found the 190 in 45 years! There are some big wild places in eastern Europe.
SvenTviking 6 months ago
finders keepers, id fix it and learn to fly
SrtRacerBoy 6 months ago
AWESOMMMME...
I imagine found that when you go in forest for somes mushrroms...
It's The Goonies in the real life
WILDBILLYECOYOTE 7 months ago
if i discover it i would've bought that land and claim it for myself
insfree 7 months ago
Prety good condition for a machine that sit there for over 60 years AND survived a the impact with the trees!
Send it a museum
TonyMcDark 7 months ago
@TonyMcDark good news, the Flying Heritage Collection had restored this beautiful aircraft and its already flying.
ariels36 7 months ago
@ariels36 good job!
Drwilliamsm45 7 months ago
@TonyMcDark they found the plane in 1989 this video was taken in 1989 and according to the description they are restoring it so I think they moved it by now. But to last 40+ years in that swamp is amazing I agree.
CapnCrossbones 7 months ago
@CapnCrossbones
Moved to a UK private collection in 1991. Sold and restoration is finished now in the US.
FiveCentsPlease 7 months ago
@FiveCentsPlease Yea! Dang , you got a link to the finished/restored plane?
CapnCrossbones 7 months ago
@CapnCrossbones copy and paste "Flying Heritage Collection Fw-190 takeoff " on the search and you'll see it
ariels36 7 months ago
that is a gold mine if you knew who to sell it to. me on the other hand would fix it and learn to fly it and get my pilots listens. i want a me 262 but that will never happen. i do know where a underground bunker is tho. the old ss and the new guy are guarding it tho. thank you grandfather for telling me. asshole ss humon. im glad he died.
furrymaster69 7 months ago
@furrymaster69
The wreck was not sold for a huge amount of money compared with the value of the plane now after restoration. Restorers don't throw money away to profiteers. Five replica Me262s have been built and sold. Very little has emerged from the underground bunkers that isn't water-logged junk, but never say never because some bunkers have not been explored.
FiveCentsPlease 7 months ago
Yes, they fired it up with the intention of flying it, but the weather didn't cooperate...next flight is scheduled for August 6, 2011. They are planning to fly it alongside their Bf-`109E.
tux49 7 months ago
This plane is fully restored. Saw the thing fire up today in Everett, Washington. Amazing.
boojiray 7 months ago
he made a shitload of money selling it to a restorer i hear that the 190s are some of the rarest planes from WWII
DuetchJunger 7 months ago
@DuetchJunger
Not as much as some people assume. More money is spent on the restoration than the wreckage and the selling price is reflected in the finished product. Most collectors don't throw money around to profiteers when they could also build an example from scratch with enough resources.
FiveCentsPlease 7 months ago
@FiveCentsPlease nevr thought of it that way
DuetchJunger 7 months ago
Da liegt ein Milionenwert im Wald und niemand beachtete dies 70 Jahre lang. Ich bekäme eine Kriese, würde ich eine FW 190 finden!!
dixieland69 7 months ago
Thats a Pay-Day for sho.
Bravo21 8 months ago
ill be at paine feild, june 18,with camera
seattlefw190 8 months ago
@seattlefw190
Check with the museum for flight status. They're trying to fix an oil cooler leak in time for the public debut.
FiveCentsPlease 8 months ago
it a ufo lol
scouttroop291 8 months ago
What happened to this aircraft after the find?
Crayz33Hors3 8 months ago
@Crayz33Hors3
Partial restoration by first owner. Sold to Flying Heritage Collection, Everett, WA. Over many years painstakingly restored to exact original condition and to airworthy. First test flight on Dec. 1, 2010. After test flights and paint, it is now at the museum. The first public debut flight is June 18, 2011, but check with the museum first.
FiveCentsPlease 8 months ago
the pilot wandering around the woods saying were the fuck did i crash my plane?
commanderwalker13 8 months ago
I'm glad the pilot survived the crash. I can't imagine anything creepier than stumbling across a German WWII plane in a forest with a body still inside of it..
crazyfvck 8 months ago 25
@crazyfvck indeed. what a great story as well. Because of the size of the land and the brutal long war, I'd imagine that it's still possible to find a crashed plane with the remains of the pilot inside in Russia or the Ukraine even today. Chances are probabaly higher to find a Soviet plane... Tanks and other vehicles from the war are still getting pulled out of rivers and marshes all over Russia. I think it's difficult to grasp the epic nature of the war on the East Front.
spiraling69 7 months ago