Colin also acquired the former RAFM fuselage section of CASA 2111 which was used in fuselage shots during the film. It departed the U.K a long time ago for use in a ‘Heinkel’ project in Austria.

From the http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/ website and consisting of the CASA fuselage being married to the remains of the He-111P2 WrkNo 5883 recovered by the RAF from Norway in 1974.

Google doesn’t find much information about that recovery or exactly what was recovered, I recall the aero magazines advising of it at the time, and I recall assuming that a relatively intact example had been found/recovered?

However it seems this recovery was the Heinkel involved in the battle with the RN FAM Museum’s Skua also recovered in 1974 from Norway, and apparently recovered at the same time the Skua was recovered.

If so, the recovered remains were largely the rear fuselage section and shattered wing remains?, with much of the wreckage still apparently existing in the mountain site still today?

http://home.online.no/~oela/page3.html

Edit – Apparantly not?

Consulting the Geoff Goodall Directory reports the 1974 recovery as thus?

forced landing on frozen lake Norway, later sank c42
Norwegian AF Museum, Gardermoen AB .73
(incomplete wreck recov. ex lake .73)
RAF Museum Store, RAF Cardington: wreck stored
Imperial War Museum, Duxford: wreck stored
sold to private owner in UK
private collector, Austria 00/03
(rear fuse. & components stored Austria 03, planned
composite static rest. project using cockpit section &
cwntre fuse. sections of CASA-2.111B B.2I-20 used in
filming of movie Battle of Britain in 68)
(also has been rep. as He 111P-2 Werke Nr. 5883)

http://www.goodall.com.au/warbirds-directory-v6/heinkel.pdf

So I really am still un-the-wiser as to how much was really recovered and where in Norway it was recovered from in 1974, Geoff’s directory suggests the recovery in 1974 was an underwater lake recovery?, which clearly isn’t the one associated with the Skua site and photos above?

Google did however find this one, far more “intact” and still sitting there today in the mountains of Norway smiles

http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2013/07/grotli-ghost-town-norway-wrecked-heinkel-bomber-replica/

Now it could be married together with that ex BoB replica cockpit section at East Kirby…….

regards

Mark Pilkington