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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=125 style=" border-bottom: 5px solid #C0C0C0;" BGCOLOR="#990000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="2660a7d1dvldzz.gif"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="24c51750.jpg" border=0 width="337" height="117" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>D-EEFB</B><B>                </B><A HREF="fabrikation.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Fabrikation Stampe Vertongen"><B><IMG SRC="38e23140.jpg" border=0 width="35" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><B> <IMG SRC="38f29140.jpg" border=0 width="41" height="20" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Stampe SV.4C</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=140 BGCOLOR="#CC0033" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="3b20a193.gif"> <div> <A HREF="home_engl.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home"><B>Home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="stampe3b.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Aircraft Builder Jean Stampe">Jean Stampe</A></div> <div> <B>Manufacturing</B></div> <div> <A HREF="sv43d.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Stampe SV.4">The SV.4</A></div> <div> <A HREF="kriegsjahre3e.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The War Years 19391944 / Production in F">WWII</A></div> <div> <A HREF="wiederaufbau3f.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rebuilding the Stampe Production">Rebuilding</A></div> <div> <A HREF="kunstflug40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Stampe in Aerobatics">Aerobatics</A></div> <div> <A HREF="oldtimer41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Vintage Airplanes">Vintage planes</A></div> <div> <A HREF="d_eefb42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Stampe DEEFB">The D-EEFB</A></div> <div> <A HREF="daten44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Technical Fact Sheet of the DEEFB">Fact Sheet</A></div> <div> <A HREF="galerie4b.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Literature on Stampe and Aerobatics">Literature</A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>GALERIE</B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="galerie43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Purchase in Virginia">Virginia</A></div> <div> <A HREF="galerie46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="General repair in Freiburg (1)">General Repair 1</A></div> <div> <A HREF="galerie47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="General repair in Freiburg (2)">General Repair 2</A></div> <div> <A HREF="galerie48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="General repair in Freiburg (3)">General Repair 3</A></div> <div> <A HREF="galerie49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Takeover from repair shop in Freiburg">Freiburg</A></div> <div> <A HREF="galerie4a.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Arrival in Schönberg ">Schönberg</A></div> <div> <A HREF="album_e.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Album">Photo Album</A></div> <div> <A HREF="video4d.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Videos">Videos</A></div> <div> <A HREF="art.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stampe Art Gallery">Stampe Art Gallery</A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="impressum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Legal Notice Data Privacy">Contact - Legal Notice - Data Privacy</A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#808080" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Stampe & Vertongen Manufacturing</I></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="10" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="594" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 752 WIDTH="572"><div> <IMG SRC="399ef9f0.jpg" border=0 width="239" height="159" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#EEEEEE" FACE="Arial" >Together with his old wartime friend Maurice Vertongen, Stampe developed plans for a flying school.  Vertongen took over the financial side of the venture by raising the necessary start-up capital for the company.  Unfortunately, in the years after WWI, there were hardly any aircraft available for training purposes, so Jean Stampe decided to build his own plane.</FONT></div> <div> Another wartime friend and pilot named Maurice Boel introduced Stampe and <IMG SRC="2189b640.jpg" border=0 width="155" height="100" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="5">Vertongen to the Belgian aircraft engineer Alfred Renard.  Renard was a certified aircraft designer, who integrated design characteristics from the German Bücker 131 Jungmann and the English de Havilland Tiger Moth to create a training biplane for the army. (Aerial surveillance, bombing techniques, later blind flight training)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2175b8b0.jpg" border=0 width="91" height="139" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="0">The search for the ideal site for his flying school led Stampe to Antwerp, where he found a suitable location in Duerne.  This is where the flying school opened its doors in October of 1923. In its first twelve months of business, the school trained 54 military pilots and two civilians.</div> <div> In 1927, Stampe & Vertongen Aircraft Construction became the<IMG SRC="21af59e0.jpg" border=0 width="245" height="158" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="5"> Belgian agent of the English de Havilland Company.  Now English “60 Dh” Moth biplanes could be sold and serviced in Belgium.</div> <bR> <div> Photo top left: Stampe & Vertongen Aircraft Construction</div> <div> Photo top right: first assembly plant of Constructions Aéronautiques J.Stampe & M.Vertongen</div> <div> Photo bottom left: financier Maurice Vertongen</div> <div> Photo bottom right: de Havilland “60 Dh” Moth biplane</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>