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    Airframe Family: Pfalz D.XII
    Latest Model:D.XII
    Last Military Serial:2486/18 Luftstreitkrafte
    Construction Number:7517
    Compressed ID:Pfalz D.XII sn 2486/18 Luftstreitkr...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Air and Space Museum

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a D.XII.

    June 1918

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Imperial German Air Service with s/n 2486/18.

    1919

    To USA as part of Allied war reparations.

    Sold as war surplus by Department of Commerce.

    Circa 1925

    Brought to Hollywood and appeared in a number of World War I aviation films.

    1938

    Flew in the movie Dawn Patrol, portraying a D.VII.

    To National Air Museum, Washington, DC.

    By 1988

    Placed on display with Experimental Aircraft Association Museum, Oshkosh, WI.

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 2486/18
    When finally given back to NASM it had lost much of its instrumentation and acquired an 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch coat of fiberglass over its entire fuselage.

    16 September 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At the EAA Air Venture Museum in Oshkosh, WI while on loan from NASM

    By June 1989

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Paul Garber Facility, Silver Hill, MD.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: 2486/18
    Painted as when it the movie Dawn Patrol.


    Photographer: Eric Long
    Notes: At the Legends, Memory, and the Great War in the Air exhibit, National Air and Space Museum https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/pfalz-dxii/nasm_A19540015000

    By 2024

    Assigned to National Air and Space Museum for storage.
    Location not noted.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2019/2020 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Experimental Aircraft Association
    Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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