Close but no cigar – lots of images of captured Storch aircraft but not specifically of Monty’s Wiki has a couple of shots of captured examples, including - Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst and his Storch, Italy, 1943 A captured German Fieseler Fi 156C-3/Trop Storch (ex "NM+ZS"), WkNr. 5620 This site gives the RAF allocated tail number, which together with the shot of Broadhurst’s aircraft should get you close……. http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_fieseler_fi_156.html Allied service - captured Fi 156s were used in surprisingly large numbers by the RAF. At least 47 were used by front-line squadrons in the Mediterranean theatre, and more than sixty were taken onto RAF charge. Amongst them was VM472, which became the personal aircraft of Field Marshal Montgomery. (picture of Fieseler Storch in British colours) Oh, and a search for Storch in the AWM collection provides another shot or two of captured aircraft
www.airpowerworld.info/other-military-aircraft/fiesler-storch.htm Hi Bernhardt. Try this site. Or go to warbirdsresoursegroups. Wedgetail
Hi Bernhardt. As a matter of interest the last german aircraft shot down in WW 2. Was a Fi 156 Fiesler Storch in 1945. It was shot down by 2 USAF Piper L4's. Using .45 Browning pistols. wedgetail
thanks for the help, I'm quessing it's probaly late european colours? Have seen pics of a French one might consider
Here's another image - from the Flight Global archive bristol beaufort | 1944 | 0220 | Flight Archive
Hi All. What a great friendly bloke Sir Harry Broadhurst was. He would visit us at RAF Thorney Island Marine Craft section every few months, in his green 40 ft yacht along with his pretty daughter, & his Adj returning from France. I'm sure he was a professional "Bootlegger." After greetings his first question was " Has the Customs chappie been around "? We replied "About 2 weeks ago Sir". Customs would call in for his cup of tea now & again. When Sir Harry left he would leave behind 2 big kitbags full of cigarettes & bottled beer.He would laugh on telling us about his inverted landing of a Vulcan bomber at what was London Airport. That was in the late 1950's. Regards ..... wedgetail.
He would laugh on telling us about his inverted landing of a Vulcan bomber at what was London Airport. Wouldn't have thought it was much of a laughing matter, four people died. 1 October 1956 Vulcan BI XA 897 S/L. J G W. Stroud + S/L. E J. Emes AFC + S/L. E J. Gamble + Mr. F H. Bassett +
Gentlemen, Some nice opening scenes here on British Pathe of Montgomery landing on an unspecified beach and being greeted by familiar figures in what they claim is an Auster Light Scout Plane. A nifty little craft whatever it may be ... ? Auster Light Scout Plane Lands On Beach… Regards ...
Several years ago, Bombardier Ronald Prince of 92nd LAA Regiment told me how he believed he saved Sir Harry Broadhurst’s Storch from being shot down. In July 1944, G Troop, 319 Battery, 92nd LAA was deployed in the Normandy bridgehead guarding field gun emplacements when its air sentries spotted a Storch. Even though the plane had British markings, the gunners assumed it was a German aircraft. They ranged their Bofors Guns at it and prepared to fire – the slow-moving Storch would be an easy target. However, Bombardier Prince suddenly recalled that Broadhurst was known to be using a captured Storch for his sorties. ‘It’s not a German – it’s one of ours,’ he frantically told the gun crews. At first, they didn’t believe him and continued to target the Storch. However, Bombardier Prince successfully pleaded with the gunners to spare the little aircraft and it moved safely out of range. The details of Bombardier Prince’s story were sketchy and there is no confirmation that the Storch did belong to Broadhurst. But I’m sure the incident happened as he described. And if it was indeed Broadhurst – and had Bombardier Prince (pictured) not been on the alert - 92nd LAA might have earned a very unwelcome place in history.
from what I have read he captured it in the desert and used it until 1944, where he tried to crash land on a roof of a hanger
Gentlemen, Some nice opening scenes here on British Pathe of Montgomery landing on an unspecified beach and being greeted by familiar figures in what they claim is an Auster Light Scout Plane. A nifty little craft whatever it may be ... ? Auster Light Scout Plane Lands On Beach… Regards ... Not an Auster, but Stinson Vigilant as seen with Broadhurst's Storch. File:Fi 156 and Stinson Vigilant RAF Vasto c1944.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Another Pathe film with Churchill getting into a Storch. CHURCHILL IN BARGE AND PLANE - British Pathé
I think the Stinson was a Canadian plane(?) I was going to build one in 3d for a game but the drawing I have looks to be a little shorter than that one on the beach.
I think the Stinson was a Canadian plane(?) I was going to build one in 3d for a game but the drawing I have looks to be a little shorter than that one on the beach. It was a US manufacturer. Yours is a different model, the Voyager and not the Vigilant. Smaller and no radial engine.
