FA(A) 262

[diegroe]

Who has information about Flieger-Abteilung (A) 262, especially personnel?
Dieter

[Soderbaum]

Hi Dieter

I have some fragmentary information about this unit and about 54 flyers noted...but I assume that you have more information than me(as usual)...

Perhaps Mosen could have additional information..?

:-/
Gunnar

Hi Dieter and Gunnar,

it seems that we all have some rare - and the same -information on FAA 262. I never discovered an original document or an album about this unit. What does UTD say?
My file continues only 18 names of persons who served with 262, but 30 who were with its predecessor, FFA 42.

Mosen

[diegroe]

Hello, Friends,
I have 43 names for FA(A) 262, among them a Ltn. May, observer. Gunnar, you remember that long ago we talked about him. I have three nice photos of three different airplanes with Uffz./Vzfw. Egon Fath as pilot (later chief pilot of Dornier) and his observer Ltn. May. Airplane "Halbe Protion" is a Halberstadt CL.II, "Lenchen" a LVG C.V and "Alice" a DFW C.V (shown in Windsock Datafile 53, page 10, # 37). I would love to find Fath's unit to place my new photo with the half portion and the old ones from Peter Grosz in the right unit. Greg VanW. believes that the airplanes, showing late 1918 crosses, were from a Fliegerabteilung, possibly (A), and not from a Schlachtstaffel which flew other types at that time. I wonder whether we could palce May in the FA(A) 262 and also Fath. My photos show their faces very well.
I would be glad to send you *copies of the photos and of our roster, would have to retype the latter to send by E-mail.
Greetings, Dieter