MBI Book on FW-189 any good?

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Hi all,

I am looking for reference materials on FW-189 night fighter, other than the one photo commonly seen with the crews. The only other book I can find other than the Squadron In Action is the MBI book. I’d like to get one but I want to be sure that it has more to offer on this subject.

Thanks.

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Are you aware of the example unde rebuild to fly in the uk? Last i herd of it the owner had it up for sale.

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Any link to the build? I thought the only surviving Fw189 was destroyed in a hail storm.

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I dont have it to hand but i will dig it out for you.

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She is actualy up for sale here now so if you have a good few million burning a hole in your back pocket:

http://www.warbirdfinders.co.uk/aircraft_FW189_V7+1H.htm

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I went ahead and bought the book, and it arrived today. Typical Czech books of this variety: soft cover, half Czech, half English text, lots of line drawings, scale drawlings, and not-often seen photos, and some color plates in the center. I only glanced through it so far, and it seems very detailed in the developments, operation history and different variants and prototypes. FW 189-E/F/G? Who knew! But there’s only one mention of the nightfighter version and no more details than other books.[sigh]

And there is a mention of the abovementioned FW-189 restoration project, with a fascimile of a page of the log book from the plane. All in all a valuable source of information.