Romanian Potez 25 aircraft

Are there any photos of Romanian Potez 25 with cross markings published ?
How many aircraft of this type were used in Romania ?
I would appreciate if anyone could give a comment ?


Tomasz Kopanski



This post has been edited by Tomasz Kopanski on July 10, 2005 08:03 pm

I know of only one published photo that shows a Potez 25 with 'Michael's Cross' type markings, photo included in the large tome edited by Avions, in France, p. 177.

There are other exisiting photos of ARR Potez 25s in the same markings.

There were 250 Potez 25s built at I.A.R. Brasov Plant. Another dozen were imported from France.

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on July 10, 2005 11:30 pm

If Romania had so many of these planes, why didn't they use them as a night harassment aircraft, the way the Soviets used their Po-2's?

The airframe and engine resources of the surviving Potez 25s expired in the early 1940s. Very few were kept in airworthy status after the war on East broke out.
However, there was an attempt to use obsolete airplanes for night harassement. There was even a unit formed in mid-1944, called Grupul grenadieri (interestingly, there was no number assigned to this ad-hoc unit), but there are no records of its combat activity, if any (which I doubt).

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on July 11, 2005 12:04 am