[CWatson]

Originally Posted by Hans

CWatson, I am really wondering why this triplane is guarded. I never saw any other guarded german a/c, the only ones I saw are foreign a/c forced land outside of airfields.

I have wondered the same thing myself.

What was the reason for this? Preventing souvenir hunters after the demise of MvR...?
H

We will never know for sure. What we do know is 425/17 was all red with a white rudder. You can see by the planes remains what type of crosses it had.