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I suggest that you post on ww1aircraftmodels.com There are a couple of first class and very well informed Polish modellers who post there regularly - they will probably be able to help you with your question.

 

BTW it is the best site on the web for WW1 aircraft and related topics.

 

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It won't be good news ...
I am convinced that this painting is fictional. And the description is full of inaccuracies. There is no such pilot or observer on the lists of crews of the 3rd Eskadra Wielkopolska (GreatPoland Squadron) and I have never seen a photograph of a Polish DFW C.V with such a painting. The emblem of the 3rd Squadron (later name is 12 Eskadra Wywiadowcza / 12th Recce Sq) was a white arrow, not an eagle. In addition, the drawing - even if based on facts - is still incomplete, there are no registration numbers painted on the hull, and no tactical number. The colors used for the graphics are also different than on other Polish DFW C.V.
III Eskadra used several DFV C.V aircraft, but only during training, right after formation. The use of an emblem with an eagle on a school plane - that is, the symbol of the state - in a non-statutory form, as a personal sign? School planes were usually painted according to the regulations.
Painting as in the picture is very attractive, but that's why it should appear somewhere in the form of a photograph, and it is not.

So - IMHO this drawing is a fake.

 

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Surprise ...

You're right.

 

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The crew of D.F.W. C.V: No. 1 - Sgt. Wiktor Daniel, no. 2 - cpl. obs. Mieczysław Serdecki. March 1920
A beautiful eagle is painted on a light strip (light green - pea). Such a painting clearly indicates a "civil" plane, one of about 30 copies of this type purchased in 1919 in D.F.W.'s plants, where they were also produced for the needs of civil aviation (hence the painting). Visible added machine gun turntable ("civilian" planes were purchased without weapons), the same as on Breguets XIV (TO-3 type).

 

Found here: https://forum.odkrywca.pl/topic/761637-sylwetki-lotników-ii-rp-1918--1920/?do=findComment&comment=1969180

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19 hours ago, KayFranz said:

Surprise ...

You're right.

 

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The crew of D.F.W. C.V: No. 1 - Sgt. Wiktor Daniel, no. 2 - cpl. obs. Mieczysław Serdecki. March 1920
A beautiful eagle is painted on a light strip (light green - pea). Such a painting clearly indicates a "civil" plane, one of about 30 copies of this type purchased in 1919 in D.F.W.'s plants, where they were also produced for the needs of civil aviation (hence the painting). Visible added machine gun turntable ("civilian" planes were purchased without weapons), the same as on Breguets XIV (TO-3 type).

 

Found here: https://forum.odkrywca.pl/topic/761637-sylwetki-lotników-ii-rp-1918--1920/?do=findComment&comment=1969180

Say, KayFranz, do you know where to get more information on DFW's post-war production for the civil market? Any literature?

Thank you!

Richard

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