Warbird Information Exchange

With Daimler Benz engines rare as hen teeth, have any been recovered from Sweden? I thought Svenska Flygmotor had built them at one time. Any of thier tooling still around?

Regards,
Mike

Yes there have

Dave

Didn't Robs Lamplough have one of these at one point?

At a certain point I was under the impression that the majority of usable DB's actually came from Sweden (before the collapse of the iron curtain).

D-FMBB used to be fitted with a Swedish one.

Where is Christer when you need him

Cheers

Cees

I'm here, Cees, lurking in the background but I don't have anything substantial to add. The swedes were very efficient when it came to scrapping military equipment during those days and today, they are scrapping the whole defence - men, women and equipment.

If there was a "hidden source" of swedish built DB 605, then I believe it would have been found by now but never say never. The build quality was better for the swedish built ones than for the original batch(es) that were delivered from Germany. As far as I know, the single engined SAAB 21 never flew with a german built engine and the twin engined SAAB 18 was to be fitted with at least one swedish built engine.

Anyway, if someone was to find one and fit the engine to a genuine BF 109 ...... ...... what would the purists say?

Christer

Hi, My name's Jan, I'm new to this forum.

The DB 601 was never built in Sweden, although DB605 certainly was. After receiving a German-built batch of DB 605s, Svenska Flygmotor built a total of 800 DB605s, with the last being delivered during the late 'forties. The production quality of the Swedish-built engine was much better than the German ones. Apparently, when the twin-engined Saab B 18B entered service, one of each was fitted to the first production aircraft.

In 1995, I noted one sectioned DB 605 at Wing F 15. It may still be there at the local museum
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Don't know if there's any other DB 605s outside of the Swedish AF Museum, though.

Regards,

Jan