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Deutschen Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug

DFS 230


Type of aircraft

Werk Nr.

Country

Status

Reg

Additional information

DFS 230C-1

Bosnia Hercegovina

PVD

Museum in Banja Luka. Still there May 2005.

DFS 230

 

Bosnia Hercegovina

PVD

 

Historical Museum, Sarajevo, noted there in August 2005. Dutch SFOR soldiers found the fuselage frame near Dvar.

DFS 230A-2

Belgium

PV

Eben Emael Fortress Museum. On long term loan from Ju 52 halle, Flieger horst Wunstorf, original fuselage frame and some other original items, wings etc are replica

DFS 230

Greece

PVD

Parts of a fuselage frame in private collection on Crete together with other remains. War museum in Sfakia (adress Askifou Sfakia)

DFS 230B-2

France

CR

Musée de l'Air, Fuselage almost complete. Remains recovered from Vassieux en Vercors. Germany used gliders there on 21 July 1944 and the remains stayed there until some were recovered by Musée de l'Air. One set of parts were sent to Germany and later restored. Reportedly two set of fuselages was kept by the Musée de l'Air and are now used in this restoration begun by Ailes Anciennes in 1990. 

DFS 230C-1

France

PV

Musée de la Résistance du Vercors, parts from several different aircraft

DFS 230C-1

France

S

Ailes Anciennes, On loan from Musée de l'Air. Might be restored for another museum when the first one is finished.

DFS 230C-1

France

PV

Musée de la Résistance, Champigny-sur-Marne, suburb of Paris. Probably only fuselageframe, might be on display outside the museum.

DFS 230C

36-16

Germany

SD

Museum fur Verkher und Technik, Berlin, Fuselage frame, a second frame is reported with the museum

DFS 230A-2

120-02

Germany

PV

KA+1-52

Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow, Berlin, replica containing original parts

DFS 230
Second photo

 

Norway

S

 

Fuselage frame, no wings, recovered from mountain in Norway. It is planned to restore the fuselage for a museum.

DFS 230C-1

Yugoslavia

PVD

Military Museum, Belgrade, Fuselage frame on show, while the wings are reported to be in store. The glider participated in the raid on Marshal Tito's partisan headquarters