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    Airframe Family: Focke Wulf Fw-190 / Ta-152
    Latest Model:FW 190A-8/N (replica)
    Construction Number:739447
    Last Civil Registration:N447FW
    Latest Owner or Location:Wulf Inc, Beaverton, OR

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Fw-190A-8.

    From 21 February 2001 to 2005

    To Flug Werk of America/Jay C. Thinnes, Chandler, AZ with new c/r N91160.

    21 February 2001

    To Thinnes Jay, Sedona, AZ with new c/r N447FW.

    21 February 2001

    To Thinnes Jay, Sedona, AZ with new c/r N91160.

    From 16 November 2005 to 2009

    To Jay C. Thinnes, Sedona, AZ keeping c/r N91160.

    From 2007 to 2010

    Contracted to Meiermotors GMBH, Bremgarten Airport, Eschbach, Baden-Wurttemberg for work on the airframe.
    The fighter factory placed the order with Meiemotors in 2007.
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    Remanufactured as a FW 190A-8/N (replica) by Flug Werk GmbH at Gammelsdorf, Munich.
    New construction number, 990005, assigned to the airframe.

    26 March 2010

    To unknown owner with c/r N447FW.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Virginia Beach, VA.

    19 April 2010

    To Training Services Inc, Virginia Beach, VA keeping c/r N447FW.

    20 April 2010

    Civil registration, N447FW, cancelled.
    Exported to Germany.

    4 May 2011

    To Training Services Inc, Virginia Beach, VA with new c/r N447FW.

    May 2011

    First flight.
    Matthias Dorst comments (3 December 2016): first sortie over Virginia Airshow warbirds over the beach with US-reg N447FW.

    10 May 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX447FW (FW 190-A8, 739447) issued.

    21 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: This was taken at the Military Aviation Museum (Fighter Factory) in Virginia Beach Virginia on 5-21-2011. It was the debeut air show for the Fw-190A-8N / N447FW for the Fighter Factory.

    21 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert Abbott

    21 May 2011


    Photographer: Robert Abbott

    To Military Aviation Museum and Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach Airport, Virginia Beach, VA.
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    From 24 July 2013 to 2014

    To Tillamook Air Museum/Jack Erickson, Tillamook, OR keeping c/r N447FW.

    24 July 2013

    To Erickson Group Ltd, Beaverton, OR keeping c/r N447FW.
    The registration was updated to indicate the new ownership.

    Based at Tillamook Air Museum, Tillamook Airport (OTK), Tillamook, OR.
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    22 August 2013


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: Seen during Warbirds over the Beach, Virginia Beach, VA, USA

    From 22 August 2014 to 2015

    To Erickson Aircraft Collection, Madras, OR keeping c/r N447FW.

    Placed on display with Erickson Aircraft Collection, Madras City-County Airport, Madras, OR.
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    30 April 2015

    To Wulf Inc, Beaverton, OR keeping c/r N447FW.


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    Credits
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall

    Individual Contributors
    Matthias Dorst
    Mike Henniger

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