The Technikmuseums Speyer and Sinsheim form a double museum with a partly overlapping, but very beautiful and extensive collection of airplanes and helicopters, (steam) trains, cars and more.
The museums are 30 minutes away by car.
The museums have an indoor and outdoor exhibition with a collection in the field of technology and transport.
The total exhibition space, inside and outside, is 150,000 m².
This VFW-614 was not built by Fokker, but there are major similarities.
Fokker merged with VFW (Vereinigte Flugmetaal Werke) from 1969 to 1980 and built a number of components for the VFW-614.
Within a year of the prototype's roll-out, the aircraft crashed during a test flight.
Part of the test program was continued by Fokker at Schiphol.
The marketing activities for the VFW-614 were also partly provided by Fokker.
The plane was not a success, only 19 were built.
Sinsheim website: https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/
Speyer's website:
https://speyer.technik-museum.de/
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A Fokker E.III replica without registration in the Technik museum Sinsheim.
(photo Henk van Capelle)
A replica Fokker Dr.I with the (fake) registration 152-17 in the exhibition hall of the Technik Museum Speyer.
This registration has been applied to many Dr.I replicas because it was the registration of the original Dr.I which was flown in World War I by Manfred von Richthofen.
(photo Henk van Capelle)
The second Dr.I replica hanging against this wall has the (fake) registration 204-17.
The original 204-17 was flown in the First World War by the “Fizefeldwebel Paul Baeumer”.
(photo Henk van Capelle)
This VFW-614 aircraft from the Speyer collection is the original registered OY-TOR in the original paintwork of the Danish Cimber Air and has cn G04.
The OY-TOR was operational at Cimber Air from 1975 to 1979.
Thanks to Henk Stevens