Swedish Heinkel III wreck recovered for restoration

I’ve always thought mounting bombs this way must have been a bit of a nightmare!

I think you’ll find that the bombs were armed after installation, so dropping one at the loading stage wouldn’t have been too dangerous.

José

Many thanks for posting the links with photos. Excellent news to know that she will be saved. Looks like the restoration of the cockpit section is well under way also.

Cheers,
Richard

PS. Yes Adrian, the “deep fat fryers” are the the bomb storage containers. I’ve always thought mounting bombs this way must have been a bit of a nightmare!

I think it’s a great move to have this wreck brought in from the cold and be given the care it needs, this is a historic airframe after all from the beginning of the hostilities in Europa. Let’s hope more airframes out in the open in Scandinavia will be given the same treatment.

Cheers

Cees

Bruce,

PM sent.

Regards,

Jan

Anyone got contact details for either the museum or the restorers?

I might be able to save them a lot of time!

Bruce

It’s always good to hear about warbird restoration and great to hear that interest is still strong!
The CASA 2-111s never did much for me, they were never really warbirds and with Merlins fitted, plus that large radiator, they lost the je ne sais quoi that Jumos gave them.
The first CASA 2-111 HEs were fitted with Jumos until delivery became a problem.

NB: They were basically H-6 versions while the original power plant was used.

Excuse the ignorance (they do say you should do what you are good at…), but can I assume that the sections looking like the deep fat fryers at the chip shop are the bomb bays? I realise that the He111 had vertical storage of bombs, but I’m fairly sure that’s the first time I’ve seen the bays themselves in the flesh. I’d always assumed that there was more space, and some kind of arrangement for hanging them from the roof of the bomb bay…

Adrian

http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Luftwaffe/heinkel/he111.htm

Has this to say:

“Cockpit section currently under restoration in Sweden for a future museum at Tolga in Norway. Remains from Heinkel He 111H-3 1H+DN from 5./KG 26 and 1H+FH and 1H+CK will be included in crash scenario that will be built in a museum.”

There is a picture of the nose section on the site.

I found a few pictures of the wreck in-situ here:

http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/sitas.html

Great news! Any photos of this aircraft, and how far along is the nose restoration?

Cheers,
Richard

I did read some time ago that paul allen is having a CASA 2-111 converted to run on Jumos-so hopefully it wont be long now

Heinkels…

But still none flying….

No, it really is great to see another warbird saved. Good stuff!!

I didn’t notice. But thanks for the info Cees. Can’t have enough Heinkels!:)

Stieglitz

This was news in ‘another’ magazine, the Nose was removed a few years ago and is currently being restored the section that was recovered was the centre section (wings, main fuselage) but i could not see a tail on the aircraft which might have been recovered with the nose?

Either way the list of complete Heinkels will soon increase which must be good news.

curlyboy