The Bücker Bü 181 was the standard Luftwaffe training plane for beginners, as side-by-side instruction in an enclosed cocpit is ideal, from 1940 until the end of WWII Around 3,400 were produced during the war and continued afterwards in Sweden, Czechoslovakia and Egypt. The complete history of this Bü-181 is not known, although it is nearly certain that it flew with the Luftwaffe. In 1959 It was flown in Saarland with the registration SL-AAS and then was registered as D-ECYV. Its final flight was on August 24, 1997 and is now on display at the Deutsches Museum - Flugwerft Schleissheim.

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