Dewoitine D.520

摘要

Q The pieces on D.520s in recent issues have brought some more comments. A Jean-Luc Carreras has submitted a photograph of No 650 under restoration at Rochefort sur Mer in 2006. Jean-Claude Hasquenoph is a volunteer working on aircraft at the Musee de I'Aeronautique Navale, Rochefort, and says that No 650 was seized by the Germans in 1942 and flown in Luftwaffe colours. It was damaged at Nancy after an undercarriage failure in August 1943 and following the American landing in Toulon was flown by GC 2/18 and GC 1/18 of the Armee de I'Air. It was later damaged and modified for aerial reconnaissance with a camera in the lower fuselage.