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    Airframe Family: Arado Ar-96
    Latest Model:Ar-96B-1
    Last Military Serial:?U+CF Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:425462
    Last Civil Registration:SE-AOA
    Compressed ID:Arado Ar-96B-1 sn ?U+CF Luftwaffe c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin Technology Museum), Berlin, Berlin

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    Dates

    Event

    1943

    Constructed as an Ar-96B-1.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n ?U+CF.

    30 August 1944

    Uffz Franz Maier used this aircraft to defect. He landed in Loderup, Sweden.

    20 February 1945

    To Industridiesel, Stockholm, Sweden with new c/r SE-AOA.
    Reportedly this company was only an intermediary and the aircraft was operated from the start by Norrlandsflyg. It was used for target towing during AA defense practice.

    15 March 1946

    Damaged.
    While parked in front of hangar 81 at Boden, it was hit by taxiing SAAB S 17B s/n 17190.

    Repaired.

    3 August 1946

    To Norrlandsflyg, Lulea, Sweden keeping c/r SE-AOA.

    Circa 1946


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: While operating with the Norrlandsflyg, most likely at Lulea, Sweden.

    7 July 1949

    To Nils Peterson, Njurunda, Sweden keeping c/r SE-AOA.

    7 December 1954

    Civil registration, SE-AOA, cancelled.

    By 2000

    To Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin Technology Museum), Berlin, Berlin.
    View the Location Dossier

    By 2010

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: U+CF
    Remains of the Ar 96B-1 c/n 425462 s/n ?U+CF were used as a basis of composite restoration project. Wings came from Czechoslovak post-war production version Avia C-2B. The airframe of the Ar 96B-1 c/n 4210 stored in France was used as a pattern for reproducing missing components. Moreover, parts from the Ar 96B-1 c/n 4246 from Norway were also used as model for reproduction. Many minor original parts were acquired from all over the Europe.

    According to other sources the basis for restoration was the wreck of Ar 96B-1 c/n 4081 with almost identical history. Produced in 1943, served in Luftwaffe with s/n CD+DH (code 119). On 1 September 1944 hijacked by its pilot who defected and landed in Varobacka, Sweden. Registered as SE-AOB and owned by several companies and persons it ended up with Nils Peterson. De-registered in 1955. However information board at the museum clearly states that many parts came from ?U+CF while there is no mention at all about CD+DH.


    Photographer: Laurent Heyligen

    8 September 2018


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Deutsche Technikmuseum in Berlin, Germany.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Marcin Rogowski
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