After Polish Defence War in September 1939 Germans captured some of Polish aircrafts. Most of them were damaged or destroyed, but about one hundred planes were airworthy. Germans captured almost fifty PWS-26 and transported them to Mielec plants, where thirty of them were repaired. Germans sold 28 of them to Romania and two were shortly used by Luftwaffe probably as training planes. PWS-26 (lettered VG+AS) was sent to Aviation Museum in Berlin, survived bombing run and war and now is exhibited in Aviation Museum in Cracow, Poland.

PWS-26 - used as training plane by Luftwaffe. (photo V. Koss)

Page prepared by Peter 'Mikolaj' Mikolajski. Photo was scanned from magazine Aerohobby 1/90 published by NOT-SIGMA Publishing House. All rights reserved.