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    This page documents a history of a specific aircraft. The details provided vary from aircraft to aircraft and are dependent on the research and amount of data uploaded to the Aerial Visuals database.

    Airframe Family: Curtiss 34/P-1/P-2/P-3/P-4/P-5/AT-4/AT-5/F6C Hawk / 35/64/F11/BFC Goshawk / F7C Seahawk / F9C Sparrowhawk
    Latest Model:Hawk II
    Construction Number:H-81
    Last Civil Registration:D-IRIK
    Compressed ID:Curtiss Hawk II cn H-81 cr D-IRIK
    Latest Owner or Location:Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship)

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    Dates

    Event

    1933

    Constructed as a Hawk II.

    19 October 1933

    Transported by ship.
    Arrived from USA to Bremerhaven, Germany aboard the liner SS Europa.

    October 1933

    To unknown owner with c/r D-3164.

    April 1934

    To unknown owner with c/r D-IRIK.

    From 1934 to 1937

    Used as personal airplane of Ernst Udet, later Generaloberst of Luftwaffe. Flown in many air shows across Germany, notably during opening ceremony of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

    Circa 1935


    Photographer: Unknown

    Circa 1936


    Photographer: Unknown

    After 1937

    Placed on display with Deutsche Luftfahrtsammlung, Berlin, Berlin.
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    22 November 1943

    Damaged.
    During Allied bombing raid on Berlin.

    Transported by rail
    Evacuated beyond the reach of bombers, to occupied Poland.

    1945

    Captured in village of Kuznica Czarnkowska by the Polish Army together with 23 other airplanes from the Berlin collection.

    From 1945 to 1963

    Stored in various places in Poland.

    1963

    To Krakow Aviation Museum, Krakow, Malopolskie (Lesser Poland Voivodeship).
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    12 December 2007


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2007 photo at Krakow Aviation Museum, Poland

    15 May 2015


    Photographer: Paulo Abadesso

    11 March 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow, Poland.

    4 November 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: Polish Aviation Museum, Krakow, Poland.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Marcin Rogowski
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