For Sale: Crashed WW II Fw 190 for $650,000

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The aircraft you see here is a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 that was shot down by Soviet Hurricanes during a battle of the “Continuation War” in the skies over the Eastern Front on August 4, 1944. The pilot, Alfred Kruppa, bailed out and landed in the Vuoksi River, but he didn’t survive. The wreckage of the aircraft was was recovered near the town of Priozersk, in Russian Karelia, during the summer of 2019 and it’s now...

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