| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | No Reg |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Wagner DOWA 81 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Wagner DOWA 81 |
| Aircraft Version: | Wagner DOWA 81 |
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| Location | |
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| City / Area: | Mödlareuth / Deutsch-Deutsches Museum [ Off-Airport ] |
| Country: | Germany |
| Collection: | Deutsch-Deutsches Museum Mödlareuth |
| Photo Date: | 29 October 2023 |
| Photo by: | Alastair T. Gardiner |
| Photo ID: | 615645 |
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This historic home-built aircraft had only arrived in Mödlareuth, on permanant loan from the Oberschleißheim museum, a couple of days earlier. It had been constructed in secret by the engineer Dr. Gerhard Wagner so that he and his family could attempt to fly/flee from Nonnewitz across the inner-German border towards Hof. However, the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) had him under surveillance and the Wagner family was arrested in Dresden in July 1981 and imprisoned. The Stasi stored the plane in the evidence chamber of the Stasi HQ in East Berlin until re-unification in 1989. This photo is copyright © Alastair T. Gardiner, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 31 October 2023, and has since been viewed 485 times. |