WOW519 DFW C.V Butterfly

Description

The Deutsche Flugzeug Werke company were responsible for manufacturing one of the most important 2 seat aircraft of its time the DFW C.V, a highly maneuverable and versatile aircraft with approximately 3200 manufactured during the course of the war.

Utilised as an artillery spotter, it was also used in the ground attack role when fitted with bombs, as a fighter and also as a training aircraft.
The DFW’s were conventionally configured biplanes with unequal-span unstaggered wings and seating for the pilot and observer in tandem, open cockpits. These aircraft seated the gunner to the rear and armed him with a machine gun on a ring mount.
The Benz BZ.1V straight six engine was fitted with a long, vertical, chimney-like exhaust pipe (LVG-produced planes had horizontal exhaust pipe) and was covered with an aerodynamic cover, but these were often left off. The engine drove a two-blade wooden propeller 2.8 metres (9.2 ft) in diameter. Engine cooling was initially provided by radiators on each side of the fuselage, later aircraft used a radiator at the front of the upper wing.

The C.V’s main designer was Heinrich Oelerich, and it was produced in larger numbers than any other German aircraft during World War I. Around 2000 were manufactured by DFW and another 1,250 licence manufactured by Aviatik.

In the hands of a skilled pilot it could outmaneuver most allied fighters of the period. It remained in service until early 1918 though 600 were still in use by the Armistice of 11 November 1918. Most were thereafter scrapped according to the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

We have 4 x 1/30 scale versions as follows with 2 of each available:

WOW516 ‘Black 7’ Flown by Albert Hahnel and Eugen Mann
WOW517 ‘Grenade’
WOW518 ‘Red 6’
WOW519 ‘Butterfly’

All priced at $650 plus postage, the banner price includes postage and therefore there will be no additional postage applied on checkout. The TG/JJD/K&C figures in the photos are shown for scale comparison purposes and are not included unfortunately.