Skua from Norway raid

Not the Konigsberg – this Skua, L2963, was shot down in the June 12/13 1940 raid on the Scharnhorst in Trondheimfjord. It was flown by Lieutenant Cecil Filmer and Petty Officer Anthony McKee of 803 Naval Air Squadron, and was ditched by Filmer after pursuit by fighters. When his TAG was hit, he put the aircraft down rather than risk losing another crew member in a hopeless fight. (Filmer’s earlier TAG had been killed during a battle with He111s over Alesund). The Skua was recovered by the Germans and is believed to have been scrapped. The restored/recreated cockpit section at the Norsk Luftfartmuseum in Bodo bears the ‘nose art’ of L2963 but it is made up of parts from a number of different airframes.

The raid was a complete disaster, with more than half the aircraft involved being lost and a number of crews killed. Only one bomb hit the Scharnhorst, and that failed to explode.

The earlier raid against the cruiser Konigsberg in Bergen harbour was, by contrast, a complete success. A number of direct hits were scored and the ship sank after approximately two hours. Only one aircraft failed to return.

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

Looks like the same recovery – cockpit section made it into preservation.

I think most of the story is correct , but I do not think the airframe survived the war .