Username Protected wrote:
I met that airplane last year while in Iceland,
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=108807&p=1460733&hilit=DOrnier+Iceland#p1460733. I doubt there's another with the same paint-job. It was in a museum, on loan from the owner, whom I had the pleasure to meet.
The airplane was scheduled to be sold to farmers from Iowa, as I recall. It had been taken to Iceland as part of the effort to recover warbirds, so it's fitting you got to fly it Doug. It felt very solid to me. I regret I wasn't able to to take up the owner's offer of a flight in it.
Ashley
Ashley,
It's the same airplane. My friend owns it, and had it imported. The owner is not a farmer however, other than maybe what I would consider hobby farming. I've done a fair amount of work on it since it got here, and have logged about an hour of dual in it so far. I need to get some more time in it and I believe the owner would like to put the plane on skis for the winter as well, so that might be interesting.
The owner, his wife, myself, and another guy took the Dornier and a late model Super Cub up to Churchill, MB a little over a month ago now, with a group of float planes out of Minnesota. I tried to attach a couple photos from the trip, we'll see if they show up.
Doug, Kyle said he met you at Blakesburg, but I didn't realize you got to fly the plane. Cool!