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20 February 2009, 05:32 AM
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Have any Fokker Dr.I surviving pieces or wreckage ?
Have any Fokker Dr.I surviving pieces ,wreckage or with original parts planes ? Show me some photo please !
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20 February 2009, 06:26 AM
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RTY1941:
The last known Fokker Dr.I was Fok. Dr.I 152/17 on display at the Zeughaus museum in Berlin in 1945 when the museum was bombed by Allis forces during a bombing run destroying everything in it. There are some parts from the plane that is in private collections. There are three museums that have parts from Fok Dr.I 425/17 (  Manfred von Richthofen plane he was shot down in) The RCMI in Canada, AWM in Australia, IWM in England. Photos have been posted he before so I would suggest to use the search function to find them. Lloyd...
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20 February 2009, 07:29 AM
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There are enough parts for sale on the internet from MvR's plane to build all 320 of the originals, plus some spares.
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20 February 2009, 12:23 PM
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Brad is only partially correct, you can buy enough 'gen-u-wine' pieces of MvR's Dr-I on Ebay and from dealers to build not just 320 originals, but 3,200,000 originals (Brad had his decimal slightly off) For the life of me I don't know how the German's lost with such limitless numbers of aircraft!
 You can also buy enough locks of his hair to make a similar number of toupees. 
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20 February 2009, 06:42 PM
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20 February 2009, 07:05 PM
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Oh I forgot to mention that the Omaka Aviation Heritage Center in New Zealand has one of the Fabric cross too.
The personnel of Australian army had taken most of the parts for souvenirs. Some of these were given to Roy Brown as he was credited with the victory. These are now on display at the RCMI.Lloyd...
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20 February 2009, 07:07 PM
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Dear RTY1941,
Richthofen's Fokker Dr.I 425/17 was "souvenired" very much. That is, men from the nearby Australian ground troops as well as many RAF airmen took pieces of fabric, both small and large, from the wreckage and bits of the structure as well. Today those bits of fabric are spread over three or four continents and many countries, in both private collections and public museums (in Australia, Canada, the USA, Great Britain, etc.). As has been suggested here, there are a lot of fake (false) pieces that show up on ebay, etc. as well. The Imperial War Museum has the Oberursel engine from 425/17, as well as (I believe) the compass and a few other bits. The Canadian Military Institute in Toronto has a piece of one of the wingtips, as well as the aluminium shell of the pilot's seat. An authentic Dr.I rudder is also held by the Imperial War Museum, and another is held by No. 1 Squadron RAF. I'm sure there are bits & pieces scattered elsewhere as well. The best source on this subject is Paul Leaman's excellent book Fokker Dr.I Triplane - A World War One Legend Greg
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