This aircraft is a Flugwerk Fw 190A-8/N reproduction. Its former owner, Bob Russell of Camden, South Carolina, fitted it with a four bladed propeller, hub, engine, and modified cowling from a Tupolev TU-2 bomber.
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Focke-Wulf
Fw 190A-8/N
The Fw 190A started flying operationally over France in August 1941 and quickly proved superior in all but turn radius to the RAF's main front-line fighter, the Spitfire Mk.V, especially at low and medium altitudes. The 190 maintained superiority over Allied fighters until the introduction of the improved Spitfire Mk.IX.
In 1997, a German company, Flug Werk GmbH, began manufacturing new Fw 190 models as reproductions. By 2012 almost 20 had been produced, most flyable. The Museum owns two for them.