| Me and my friend bought this aircraft in 1985. The seller was an entrepreneur from South-West-Germany, who provided this aircraft to an aero-club - for free! But the aero-club was so unsatisfied, because the D-EJAG just had VFR-equipment on board - no VOR, no ADF, just Radio. The aero-club always was bitching, so anytime the sponsor took it back and sold it to us. The price was 20.000 DM (Deutsche Mark). Me and my friend were flying the aircraft to our home-base Mannheim(EDFM), on this day the pictures were taken. The D-EJAG always was standing outside on the gras-parking-aera until a hangar-parking in Speyer (EDRY) was offered to us and now the D-EJAG changed their home-base. We made many flights, even to airports like Stuttgart, but the flown hours were too less in the relationship to the budget. The next step was, to provide the aircraft to the local flight-school for their students. Said and done, at least a student retracted the flaps short after take-off and was falling down like a brick. The D-EJAG was damaged - broken in the middle - the student fortunately wasn't injured.
These description is written out of my recollection, so please correct, if I should have forgotten something
Regards from EDFM
U.Schmitt
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