This Isn't France?

[Subdeacon Joe]

23 June 1942, Luftwaffe Oberleutnant Armin Faber accidentally lands his Focke-Wulf 190 fighter plane in South Wales, handing the Allies one of Germany’s most advanced aircraft.

Disoriented in a dogfight (which he won, shooting down his opponent), Faber mistakes the Bristol Channel for the English Channel; instead of flying south to France, he flies north to Wales.  Waggling his wings in victory as he lands at RAF Pembrey, dumbfounded but quick thinking British ground crews, realizing what is happening, direct the plane to park.  The airfield duty pilot, Sergeant Jeffreys, jumps on the wing of the aircraft and takes Faber prisoner with a flare pistol — the airfield was for training only and did not have anything more lethal.  Faber, realizing his terrible mistake, tries, unsuccessfully, to commit suicide.

Faber will spend most of the war in Canada as a POW.  Painted in RAF colors, the Allies will fly and test the Fw-190, helping to developing techniques to use against it in combat.

 

 

[Dawg Hair, SASS #29557]

OOPS!

[Irish Pat]

i have a book full of those stories. A flight of 6 B-25s overflew England and landed in occupied Holland, the Germans used a lot of DC-3s that were being used as 
Airliners in Europe by different countries. The only instance of an American bomber being shot down by an American plane was a P-38 captured and flown by Italians. they could not get high octane and burnt up its engines later

[Phantom Falcon, SASS # 46139]

I think it was the first, but one of the MIG-21s the Israelis acquired  was flown to them by a defecting Saudi pilot. Their chief test pilot put about 50 hours on it. That one or one similar to it found its way to the US later. 

 

PF