Cable Airshow 2011
Fiesler Storch Replica

The Fiesler Fi-156 Storch was developed to work as an army liaison and ambulance. The large wingspan and leading edge slats give the Storch amazing STOL characteristics. A Storch was landed on a mountain side during the rescue of Mussolini by Otto Skorzeny. It landed in about 30 meters (100 feet) and took off, overloaded, in about 80 meters (250 feet). The Fiesler Storch was also the victim in the final aerial battle of WWII over Europe when US Army Lts. Duane Francis and Bill Martin, flying an L-4 Grasshopper, forced a Storch down by firing their 45s from their L-4.

This Storch is a 75% replica, built by the pilot, Steven Lund, pictured below in a WWII Luftwaffe uniform.