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Overview
German Focke-Wulf Fw190A Fighter Aircraft Vintage
Description
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft during the World War II (WWII). Many of the company's successful fighter aircraft designs were slight modifications of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.
The company was founded in Bremen on 23 October 1923 as Bremer Flugzeugbau AG by Prof. Henrich Focke, Georg Wulf and Dr. Werner Neumann. Almost immediately, they renamed it Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG, later Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH. Initially it produced several commercially aircraft, typically with thick wings mounted high over bulky fuselages. Test piloting one of these, Georg Wulf died on 29th September 1927. One of the famost civil aircraft was the Focke-Wulf Fw 200
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