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Where is this?
in a forest
Saint Petersburg, RU. The FW109 was restored after it's discovery and during that process was found to have been sabotaged. The pilot, Paul Ratz was flying it for the first time with a newly installed engine. The restoration team discovered that pipelines in the engine were stuffed with rags, possibly because the manufacturers used slave labour and POW's in horrible conditions. Incidentally, Ratz was taken prisoner by the Soviet forces and was imprisoned. He survived the war and died in 1989. He never knew his plane had been found.