AP 118 · No. 10 Section II · Aircraft 1939

Aircraft hub · 1939 · Second World War

Focke-Wulf Fw 190

The butcher bird that ruined 1941 for Fighter Command and forced the Spitfire IX into existence in nine months. The gazetteer currently lists it at 1 UK museum.

1939
First flight
~20,000
Built
408 mph
Top speed
1
Museum

Last verified 2026-10-11 against the gazetteer Compendium. Airframes move — confirm on museum pages before travel.

On charge

Where to see the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in the UK

The gazetteer records 1 Focke-Wulf Fw 190 airframe (including cockpit sections and replicas where noted) across 1 UK collection, in one region: Midlands & Lincolnshire.

MuseumCityRegionAirframes recorded
Royal Air Force Museum MidlandsChecked 2026-10-08 Shifnal Midlands & Lincolnshire Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8/R6 733682

3D model

The Fw 190 A-8/R6 in 3D

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Werknummer 733682, the RAF Museum’s Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8/R6, built as an A-8 fighter, converted to carry underwing rocket tubes and later fitted as the upper component of a Mistel composite, captured in Denmark in May 1945 and brought to Britain as Air Ministry AM75, shown at the Imperial War Museum in London for many years and at Cosford since 2013: a single-seat fighter of 34 ft 5 in span with a BMW 801 fourteen-cylinder radial in a close-fitting cowling with a cooling fan behind the spinner, two 13 mm MG 131 machine guns over the engine and four 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon in the wings, a blown canopy and wide-track main wheels that retract inwards, shown standing tail-down with the hood closed: the day-fighter scheme researched for it at Duxford in 1986, RLM 74 grey-green on the spine and upper cowling, RLM 76 light blue sides and undersides with olive and grey-violet mottling, a 74/75 splinter on the wings and tailplane, black and white crosses, a black swastika edged white on the fin, no codes, a half-white, half-black spinner, a black ETC 501 rack beneath the fuselage and a black-green three-blade propeller. Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1.3 MB) · Plate 88 in The Hangar

Computed from the survey

Collection context

Types you’ll see alongside

Aérospatiale Gazelle & Alouette, Aérospatiale Puma & Super Frelon, American rotary visitors, Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, Avro Lincoln.

Rarity on charge

One of only 1 in UK public collections.

Where the type is thickest

Midlands & Lincolnshire has 1 collection recording the type.

Marks and variants recorded

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8/R6.

Type notes

The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in brief

TypeFocke-Wulf Fw 190 (A-8)
UK museums holding one1
Airframes recorded in this survey1

Serials are the gazetteer's survey snapshot of what each collection records on charge — restorations move between workshops and reserve hangars, so check the museum page for opening times and current display status before travelling. Every type across 119 museums is indexed in the Compendium.

Aircraft questions

Frequently asked

How many Focke-Wulf Fw 190 airframes are left in the UK?

The Aviation Gazetteer records 1 Focke-Wulf Fw 190 airframe in UK collections.

Which museum has the most Focke-Wulf Fw 190 airframes?

Royal Air Force Museum Midlands has the most in this survey, with 1 recorded airframe.