CURTISS HAWK 75 A-6, Proposal, Norway

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CURTISS HAWK 75 A-6

Fighter

24 planes

 

ARMAMENT

2x 7.92mm FN Herstal-Browning machineguns

 

 

TECHNICAL DATA

Wingspan: 11.4m

Lenght: 8.8m

Eigne: 1.060 hk Pratt & Whitney R 1830-SC3G

Cruise speed: 887kmt (?)

Range: 1.320km

 

 

B.Nr             Nr        In service of the Norwegian army          Fate

13643          437                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe

13644          439                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-560

13546          441                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-569

13646          443                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-555

13647          445                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-561

13648          447                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-570

13649          449                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe

13650          451                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-565

13651          453                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe                 

13652          455                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe

13653          457                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-564

13654          459                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-559

13659          461                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-554

13660          463                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-558

13661          465                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-557

13662          467                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-567

13663          469                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe, transferred to Finland, CU-553

13664          471                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe

13665          473                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by Luftwaffe

13666          475                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by RAF, AR630 MOHAWK II

13667          477                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by RAF, AR631 MOHAWK II

13668          479                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by RAF, AR632 MOHAWK II

13669          481                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by RAF, AR633 MOHAWK II

13670          483                    1940 - 1940                              Taken over by RAF, AR634 MOHAWK II

 

Confiscated by the Luftwaffe at Kjeller April 40. To Germany for mod. Browse German instruments and weapons. Repainted, transferred to Finland

 

 

HISTORY

  

After being starved of grants in the 1930s, the autumn of 1939 and the spring of 1940 became a wishful dream for the Norwegian armed forces. New aircraft were ordered in large numbers.

In August 1939, 12 American Curtiss Hawk 75-A fighters were purchased. These were modern monoplanes with large engines, 1054 HP Pratt & Whitney. At the same time, negotiations were held on license production of 40 aircraft at Kjeller.

 

   Just before the war, Norway received 19 Curtiss P36 fighters out of an order for 24 aircraft. The first aircraft arrived in Norway on 19 February and was immediately sent to Kjeller for assembly. 5 machines were fully assembled at Kjeller Flyfabrikk on 9 April and four of them had machine guns fitted and sighted-in, but all lacked a radio. Reflector sights were on their way from Germany. However, the planes had grain and ring, so the four who had weapons would therefore, in theory, be ready for battle when they received ammunition. However, none had been in the air at this point in time. A further two were more or less ready, and the three were being unpacked. Five machines were still in crates at Oslo harbor and possibly in Bergen. The last 5 planes were on their way across the Atlantic and were delivered in Great Britain

 

  The planes that were in Norway were taken by the Germans and sent to Germany. Here they received German instrumentation and were used by German training departments. 13 of them were sold to Finland in 1941.

 

  In 2002, the wreckage of one of them, CU-554, serial number 13659, was recovered in Russia. From 2004 this aircraft has been under restoration in New Zealand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kjeller airport

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Kjeller Airport is an airport located at Kjeller in Lillestrøm municipality in Viken. Kjeller was Norway's first military airport, The first flight from Kjeller took place on 21 September 1912.

 

Kjeller Airport was built in 1912, nine years after the world's first motorized flight. this makes Kjeller airport one of the world's oldest airports. The airport was built around a field on the farm Kjeller, and was approximately 40 acres in size. The size resulted in approximately 100 meters of runway, and a few years later this area was expanded to almost 700 metres.

 

The first plane arrived at the airport in 1912, and was from France. This came in boxes and mounted at Kjeller, and flown a week after

 

The First World War increased the size of the defense budget, and this resulted in the airport area being expanded from 40 to 650 acres in 1916

 

in WW2 Kjeller was bombed on 9 April 1940 by German bombers, and the Germans immediately began the expansion and repair of the airfield for their own use

 

 

PICTRUES

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https://ibb.co/album/X7SL9v (PICTRUES)

 

SOURCES

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https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-36_Hawk

https://www.ark.no/boker/Sverre-Mo-Norske-militaerfly-9788271286873?gclid=Cj0KCQiAtbqdBhDvARIsAGYnXBPgo_TlLWgv8Gwg-C7FTsK3UWb70nk-WJCiZWu1hKfePvQzXxv316IaAiwuEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjeller_flyplass

https://www.flyfabrikken.no/

https://www.facebook.com/flysamlingen

 

Til_Dovre_Faller

[leroyonly 4,310]

Open for discussion. 

[Milocat 4,854]

+1 for Swedish/Scandinavian tree.

[Favnirbane 182]

+1

Could even add the A-6 in its Finnish modification, and then the A-8(P-36G) as a Norwegian mod.

[EMD_SD70M 2]

+1, I think this would be a sleek aircraft in it's original Norwegian paint as intended.  Alternatively, there also could be a Wright Cyclone powered version (H-75A-8) which would be identical to the US tech tree P-36G.  However, my suggestion would be to add Norwegian aircraft in the UK tech tree, as many Norwegian aircraft were evacuated to Norway and the Norwegian military personnel later joined forces with the UK's war effort. 

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1 hour ago, EMD_SD70M said:

+1, I think this would be a sleek aircraft in it's original Norwegian paint as intended.  Alternatively, there also could be a Wright Cyclone powered version (H-75A-8) which would be identical to the US tech tree P-36G.  However, my suggestion would be to add Norwegian aircraft in the UK tech tree, as many Norwegian aircraft were evacuated to Norway and the Norwegian military personnel later joined forces with the UK's war effort. 

There are many possibilities!

 

If they decide, to implement an NDI techtree (norway, denmark and iceland) this could be added there, and eventually in the meantime either be added to the British tree or in the swedish tree. 

 

The germans captured our aircraft as mentioned in the post and later sold/transferred them to finland... That is one of many reason a NDI techtree is good

 

We used many British planes, such as spitfires, beaufighters, short sunderlands, catalinas etc, where we modified sone of them

 

So some could be added temporarely like it has been done before with other nations such as israel ?