D-IFZO_1976-02_MUC_1200_NK

 

Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Kindly provided from the NK slide collection by Stephan Barth.

 

 

München-Riem

February 1976

 

D-IFZO

Dornier Do-28D-1/S

4036

DFVLR

 

c/n 4036, modified to Do 28D-1/S, Luftwaffe [West German Air Force] ('41+01' ?), Luftwaffe '58+01', operational with FBS BMVg [Flight Readiness Service of the German Federal Ministry of Defence] (04/10/1970 - 06/07/1973), 'D-IFZO' DFVLR (Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt, German Aerospace Research and Test Establishment).

 

Four Do 28D-1/S were specially equipped for VIP (Very Important Person) or staff transport for the German military.

(Source: www.ais.org/~schnars/aero/do28.htm)

 

The only photo I found of this airframe as 58+01 with Luftwaffe, on the poster for the 2020 model builders' convention at Leipheim, Germany (cancelled):

fliegerhorstmuseum-leipheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/03...

 

D-IFZO stored at Oberschleissheim, Germany, in October 2015:

www.flickr.com/photos/gooneybird29/22326757181

 

In February 2017, D-IFZO was used as a stage prop in Jonathan Dove’s opera "Flight" performed four times at Munich’s Prinzregententheater:

www.theaterakademie.de/media/images/Eigenproduktionen/201...

 

See here for additional photos and videos:

blog.theaterakademie.de/post/news/ja-es-ist-echt.html

www.theaterakademie.de/spielplan-tickets/stueckinfo/fligh...

 

Following her stint at the theatre, D-IFZO went on to the Fliegerhorstmuseum Leiphheim, where she was noted in September 2019:

www.demobbed.org.uk/images/5/58+01_do28.jpg

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Done