04/30/2011. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "This was one of three Fw 200 B-2 aircraft (c/n 200-0019 to 200-0021) ordered in early 1939 by the Dai Nippon Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan-Manchuria Aviation Company), these export aircraft were designated Fw 200 D-2. The Fw 200 D-2 was powered by four 1,000 hp BMW 132 H/1 nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engines equipped with three-blade propellers, and had twin-wheel main landing gear.

By the time the first aircraft was ready for delivery hostilities had begun in Europe and permission for their export was withheld. Under the registration D-ACWG it was operated by Lufthansa for a brief period, whereafter it was operated by the Luftwaffe 3./KG 40, initially coded NA+WM, later as F8+GL. It was destroyed in an RAF bombing raid on Bordeaux-Mérignac on April 13, 1941."