Stampe en Vertongen Museum

Stampe and Vertongen

Stampe and Vertongen Museum, Belgium

The Stampe en Vertongen museum is located at Antwerp airport.
This museum pays tribute to the aviation pioneers Jean Stampe and Maurice Vertongen who founded their flying school and aircraft factory in Antwerp in 1923, together with Jan Olieslagers.

The collection includes ten aircraft built by the Stampe en Vertongen aircraft factory.

There are aircraft from the First and Second World War to admire, of which the types from the First World War are replicas.
Two of those replica aircraft are Fokkers.

Website: http://www.stampe.be

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The first aircraft ever registered in the Belgian civil aviation register was a Fokker D-VII as O-BOBE, of which here is the replica.
This D-VII replica is equipped with an English Gipsy Queen engine of 205 hp.

This replica Fokker D-VII was built in 1985 by Rousseau Aviation in
France for use in the movie “The Blue Max”.
After the film was completed, the aircraft went to Ireland.
In Ireland it was damaged in a landing incident which prevented it
longer airworthy.
It then left for America and was given a place in the Ryder's Replica Fighter museum in Alabama.
When it came to Europe in 2000, it was still not in an airworthy condition.
It was decided to completely restore the aircraft and paint it in a Belgian color scheme.
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This is the replica of the D-VIII, officially V.26 (EV D-VIII).

The D-VIII did not fly until the end of World War I and only a small number of aircraft were in service.
It was used as a fighter, but also for reconnaissance flights.
This replica is built on original size and is equipped with a Continental W-670 engine of 220 hp.
The aircraft was for many years part of the Ryder's Replica Fighter museum in
Alabama.
In 2000 the aircraft came to Europe and is in the possession of the Stampe en Vertongen museum.
The D-VIII is airworthy and the only monoplane in the museum.
In the summer of 2002, it was damaged in a landing incident, but it
was repaired by volunteers in a short time and flew again in November 2005.
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Thanks to Henk Stevens

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