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Fokker D.VII
Lost Art-ID
626848
Artist / Creator
Title
Fokker D.VII
Dating
1919 (around)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal ; Fabric / covered
Measures
Span 890 cm
Height
215.00 cm
Width
890.00 cm
Length
700.00 cm
Weight
700000.00 g
Inventory number
70703
Description
Fokker D.VII fighter aircraft. Compared to the German D.VII used in the First World War, the aircraft has various modifications. Among other things, the upper fuselage panelling in front of the cockpit was changed and the typical armament of a fighter aircraft, consisting of two machine guns above the engine, was missing. The paintwork, which is modelled on the camouflage pattern of German aircraft from the First World War, and the German military markings are not original. In 1980, parts of the former Dutch paintwork were uncovered during restoration work.
Provenance
The aircraft was discovered by the US Army in a storage shed in Vilsbiburg, Lower Bavaria, in July 1945 and handed over to the Deutsches Museum for safekeeping in 1948. Joint research by the Deutsches Museum and the Dutch Stichting Koninklijke Defensiemusea has revealed that it is an earlier aircraft of the Dutch naval aviators, which was remodelled by Fokker Amsterdam in June/July 1940 as a gift for Hermann Göring and was later probably intended to become part of a Nazi air force museum planned by Göring. The aircraft could be identical to a D.VII stored at Schiphol in 1937, which was actually intended for a Dutch museum.
For more information on the provenance, see: external link
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Contact
Deutsches Museum
/ Von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (AdöR)
Museumsinsel 1
80538 München
Germany
Phone
(089) 21791-0
Homepage
Contact
Dr. Bernhard Wörrle
Position
Leitung Museumsmanagement-System / Koordination Provenienzforschung
Phone
(089)2179-397
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