ID This Airplane 1936

[threespires]

Can anybody ID this airplane please, picture was taken in 1936 in Germany

[CTjockey]

Hmmm....looks like a Fokker F.VIIb-3m to me.....

[eccles]

I made an old Frog model of one of those.

[thatone1967]

I hate them little fokkers.....

[dr_gn]

threespires said:

Can anybody ID this airplane please, picture was taken in 1936 in Germany

With anything like this, just put the registration into Google:

http://www.goldenyears.ukf.net/reg_D-a.htm

Eighth entry down:

Fokker Avia F.VIIb-3m c/n 19 OK-ABS

Which means it was license built by Avia (Czechoslovakian manufacturer) to a Fokker design. The registration prefix OK- is Czechoslovakia, so it's probably a Czechoslovakian Airlines aircraft.

[threespires]

dr_gn

Thanks for this info, thats wonderful.

It's from a home movie my grandad made in 1936. & I got it back today from being made into a DVD. 1st time I've seen it.

Thanks again for your help.

PistonHeads - fountain of all knowledge. :-)

[Eric Mc]

thatone1967 said:

I hate them little fokkers.....

That's one of the bigger ones.

I have FRIOG model of one of these still to make. FROG released a kit of the VII/3m in the colours of Charles Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross.

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

thatone1967 said:

I hate them little fokkers.....

That's one of the bigger ones.

I have FRIOG model of one of these still to make. FROG released a kit of the VII/3m in the colours of Charles Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross.

Have you seen the Revell Ju52 in civilian colours - red one...very nice.

[dr_gn]

threespires said:

dr_gn

Thanks for this info, thats wonderful.

It's from a home movie my grandad made in 1936. & I got it back today from being made into a DVD. 1st time I've seen it.

Thanks again for your help.

PistonHeads - fountain of all knowledge. :-)

Actually "Google - fountain of all knowledge", you just need to remember that you can i.d. many aircraft from a registration alone (if visible in a picture).

[Eric Mc]

dr_gn said:

Eric Mc said:

thatone1967 said:

I hate them little fokkers.....

That's one of the bigger ones.

I have FRIOG model of one of these still to make. FROG released a kit of the VII/3m in the colours of Charles Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross.

Have you seen the Revell Ju52 in civilian colours - red one...very nice.

Yes. Is that the 1/48 scale one.

I have an Italeri 1/72 Ju52 in my to do pile.

[Nick_F]

Eric Mc said:

thatone1967 said:

I hate them little fokkers.....

That's one of the bigger ones.

I have FRIOG model of one of these still to make. FROG released a kit of the VII/3m in the colours of Charles Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross.

I don't know why, but I always thought Southern Cross was a Ford. I remember a picture from years ago on a PG Tips card or something like that

[Eric Mc]

Southern Cross



Ford Trimotor

[KieronGSi]

thatone1967 said:

I hate them little fokkers.....

But those f**kers are Messerschmitts! laughlaugh:

[Eric Mc]

KieronGSi said:

thatone1967 said:

I hate them little fokkers.....

But those f**kers are Messerschmitts! laughlaugh:

Alweays was a rubbish joke - unless the comedian was Dutch.

[FourWheelDrift]

It's only people thinking they mean Fokker, the very old joke has always been about Focke.