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This aircraft is now for sale. You can view the complete build history of the plane on this web site. It has approximately 250 hours of time total for engine and airframe. It has standard flight and engine instruments, an Icom panel radio with intercom, and an older Garmin aviation GPS. The plane will come with the auxillary "bomb" fuel tank, skiis, engine tools, removable exhaust heat exchanger for cabin heat, engine blanket, pre-heater, battery tender, and a spare propeller. The asking price is $37,000 Canadian dollars. For more information, please email or call Dave Puckrin at dave at puckrin dot com or 780-459-8535; or you can email me at the address above under "new stuff". I am doing lots of motorcycle travelling these days, and may not respond quickly.
The airport where this aircraft has been hangared (St. Albert) since we completed it is closing soon, and we are currently looking for a new home for it. For the time being, it will be located at the Chipman Alberta airport (CFU3). The following is the original narrative about the aircraft:
John Broomhall has built a Slepcev Storch from blueprints. This airplane is a 3/4 scale version of the WWII vintage Fieseler Fi 156 Storch . See Wikipedia.
Our plane first flew on July 10, 1999.
While the Slepcev Storch plans were used to built this plane, there were enough changes made to it that this plane varies from what Slepcev produces. For this reason, I am not going to make any comparisons between this plane and the true Slepcev Storch. My experience flying a true Slepcev Storch may be seen at Flying Adventures. That said, I can say that I am very happy with the handling of this plane based on the grand total of about 250 hours flight time so far. We managed to get the rigging just about right - on the first flight I trimmed for level flight, and found only a very slight tendency to turn to the right. The LOM engine runs very well, throttle control is very precise.
What got me interested in this plane was its unusual looks and its performance characteristics.
This web page was meant to chronicle the efforts to build this thing in hopes that others might be able to benefit from it. Check out the progress photo album. It it also has contacts and a source of useful information. You can also read about Flying Adventures with Storches. This will tell stories about the things people do with their Storches, including this one, particularly when the restrictions are flown off. While you are here, you should probably read the usual disclaimers.
A bit about me. I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. For the geographically challenged, Alberta is north of Montana, USA, and south of the arctic circle (a bit). Edmonton is around the middle of the province. The province of British Columbia clutters our view of the Pacific Ocean, and Saskatchewan to our east is so flat, if your dog runs away from home, you can watch him for a week.
John is a Past-President of the Edmonton Soaring Club.
A Storch under construction in Australia
Apparently a Slepcev Storch in China
Here is a picture of a Storch built and flown by Ico Vallauri of Italy. It is painted like a Fieseler Storch that flew in 1941 in the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Air Force), during the II W.W. in North Africa. Ico says there are about 20 Slepcev Storches built or under construction in Italy.
I came across another web page ( See Links ) with some pictures of a Slepcev Storch. These pictures were taken by Phillip Treweek of Hamilton, New Zealand. Phillip was kind enough to let me use them here. Phillip described the situation as "The aircraft came from Australia (c/n 036) where it is registered to David Hazelton (he has a NSW address). I believe the designer (Nestor) was flying, and that the aircraft was on a promotional tour!"
This is a picture of one of Nestor's latest creations. According to Matt Loveday (he and his Dad are building one) who sent this to me, this version has a Rotax 914 and a three blade reversing prop. Matt says it sounds like a turbo-prop when it lands and goes into beta!
If you poke around on the net, you can find other bits of information about the Storch. For example, the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio has one.
This picture was taken by Phillip Treweek (see above) at the Aerospace Museum (RAF Cosford) last July (1997). Phillip said "This Fieseler Fi156C-7 (werke no 475081) served the British for longer than it did the Germans having been with the Aerodynamics flight at RAE Farnborough as VP546".
This Italian web site is for modellers, but has some good closeups of a Storch: Knights of the Round Table
The French built the Storch during occupation. The Morane-Saulnier Criquet is the French-built version of the Fieseler Fi.156 Storch. It is a version fitted with a Lycoming engine. The airplane is seen on landing at La Ferte Alais Airshow on June 3, 1995. F-BBUJ is a 'classic' Jacobs-powered Criquet based at La Ferte Alais with the Salis' Collection.
Rumour had it that some of the French-built Storches came apart because the annoyed builders used to piss in the glue pots.
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