Thanks for your update and personal talk on these simple airplanes... Glad, someone has and cares for one of them.
John-Alan: McClain, e-mail, 29.03.2015 20:42
I own 7008V ser # 547. The nicest flying airplane. Not for big and tall folks. Airplane has no bad habits, but you must keep it moving on landing. If you are slow, it will mush in for a hard landing. Mine has not been molested. What has been done to the panels on some is a shame.
John Chorley, e-mail, 18.02.2015 00:43
According to G-INFO G-AVZI last flew in 1976, unless it was being flown illegally! G-ATSI is still however being flown regularly by me!
Barry, 23.01.2013 18:20
The aeroplane in the photograph above is still flying and extent to this day.
Frank Roncelli, e-mail, 31.12.2011 13:17
Looking Plans
Gunther H. Butterweck, e-mail, 10.02.2011 13:48
The Bölkow 208 Junior (A-B-C) Serial Nr. 501 to 709 was build from 1962 to 1969, the last 2 aeroplanes where build by Siebel Flugzeugwerk Donauwörth, Serial Number 708-709 in 1971. The BO 208 C, DEHAC is the absolutly last one, but the producing company was never Messerschmitt !!
Ted Fonda, e-mail, 28.12.2010 13:00
Bjorn Andreasson originally designed and constructed the prototype BA-7 in his garage in San Diego, while employed as an engineer at Convair. Powered by a 75-hp Continental, it was, as the type designation implies, his seventh independent design. It flew for the first time in October 1958. Upon completion of the initial testing and development program, Andreasson returned to his native Sweden where the BA-7 design right were acquired by Malmo Flygindustri. The aircraft was renamed the MFI-9 Junior and limited production commenced in 1962. Later a manufacturing license agreement was reached with the West German aircraft firm of Bölkow-Entwicklungen KG, Munich.
Johan Runfeldt, e-mail, 28.05.2010 14:59
License-built version of the MFI-9 Militrainer, also known as the "Biafra Baby". The main cause for the licensing out of the civilian version was rigid Swedish arms exporting laws, classifying any aircraft as "war materiel", thus blocking all serious attempts to sell the plane on a world market.
desmond stagg, e-mail, 18.07.2009 14:55
Messerschmit Bolko Junior 208 first flew April 1962. Power plant Continetal 0-200 Flat Four 100 HP All metal construction electrically operated flaps Production ceased 1969
Used in 1967 at BLACKBUSHE Airport Hampshire as a training aircraft
