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May 25^th, 2004 at 11:01am

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5 ME 262's are under construction in Washington:

http://www.stormbirds.com/project/general/updates.htm

The first flew successfully Fall 03. On a subsequent flight the RLGear collapsed during taxi. Being reparied.
The original contract was with the Texas Airplane Factory, Ft Worth. Dispute between maker and buyer resulted in moving the project to Washington.

However, the Texas group is building 4 Japanese Oscars, a WWII Army version quite similar to the Navy Zero. Templates were taken from remains of wrecks salvaged in the Aleutian Islands.

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/articles/oscar/

There is a subsequent article and photos to the reference above.

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Reply #1 - May 25^th, 2004 at 1:21pm

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Also in production/rebuild, Boeing F4B4, F2B ( I think), plus there were a number of Yak-9 new-builds recently in Europe.

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Reply #2 - May 25^th, 2004 at 1:50pm

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There is also a German company making Fw-190s on the original jigs (only the engine is different), and then there are the Marcel Jurca full-sized replicas of the Mustang, Spit, 109, 190, and the three-quarter sized P-40 8)

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #3 - May 25^th, 2004 at 3:28pm

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The interesting thing about the Me262 new builds is that they have been authorized Messerschmitt serial numbers, so that technically, they would be new production and not "replicas".

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Reply #4 - May 25^th, 2004 at 3:33pm

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I believe the same rule applies to this German company making the Fw-190s Felix...
Check out http://www.flugwerk.de/new/fw190/fw190.shtm

Mark Wink

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #5 - May 25^th, 2004 at 5:16pm

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Yak was also making replica Yak-3's a while back, don't know if they're still making them ???

Of course, they wouldn't be replica's seeing that they're still being made by the original company Grin

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