>>7244682Adding what I can... The museum replica was made using original blueprints and a few original parts. As the nose camera shows us it was a recon one, which seems to be what they all ended up as after the dive bombing thing failed to pull up.
As for the reputation, loosing about 4.4% of the original fleet every year of service is indeed not all too terrible, we lost about 4.75% of our Mosquitos (J 30) and 6.7% of our Re 2000 (J 20) every year. But as the Ca 313 had a four man crew, it did rack up the fatalities when it came down, so that's probably a large part of the bad name it got. (Of course, the other three here in the comparison are also about the worst of the worst in the Swedish Air Force.) Also worth noticing here of course is that all three of these crash queens are by and large wartime production aircraft expected to be riddled with bullet holes or shrapnel not too long after entering service. Ensuring a long lifespan through high build quality simply wasn't worth it. But as the Swedish air force didn't get it's aircraft shot to pieces on a regular basis, but also couldn't get new ones very easily (things were dire enough that the shit we bought from the Italians included 60 CR.42 biplanes, to be used as fighters). So we ran them far longer than they had been built for. The Re 2000 had been built for a 7.5 flight hours life expectancy, but somehow the Swedish ground crews kept them going until they averaged 200 flight hours.
