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Junkers F13 in Canada / (c) Flugzeug Classic 5.2005
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Junkers F13
2050
Canadian Pacific
CF-ALX
1930
wreckage
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The Technikmuseum Berlin rescued an engine, the undercarriage and parts of the tail of a former Persian Junkers F13 during the 90s in Yemen. That aircraft belonged to the Imam Yahya since 1928. But these parts were to small for any restoration trial. However in 2004 the DTM and the Western Canada Aviation Museum made an arrangement for the transfer of a F13 wreckage of the CF-ALX, which was rescued by the WCAM in 1981 and stored since then at Winnipeg. The wreckage will come to Germany probably during 2005 and will be restaurated at the DTM for display during the second half of this decade.
The aircraft is WNr. 2050 Koenigsgeier, which was sold to Canada in May 1930 and which was registered CF-ALX for Air Land Manufacturing Company. In May 1933 the aircraft was sold to Victor Spencer at Vancouver, who named it "City of Prince George". Already on 23rd July 1933 the aircraft crashed during take off from Mc Connell lake in British Columbia due to heavy tail winds, which forced the aircraft down into the nearby woods. The aircraft remained at the crash location for nearly 47 years before the WCAM rescued the wreckage in 1981.
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Further reading at the WWW:
Virtuelles Luftfahrtmuseum
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