Only for He-111´s lovers.....

[Airframes]

Excellent series of pics, thank you. If you don't mind me adding to your posts, here's another survivor, currently under restoration at Duxford, UK. Sorry, I don't have details of serial number or service history.

 

[gekho]

Thanks for the pic. I hope some day we will see it flying again.

 

[gekho]

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[gekho]

This particular aircraft was license built by the Spanish company CASA, which made well over 200 CASA 2.111s both during and after the war, powered by either German Jumo engines or, after the war, British Rolls-Royce Merlins. This one has Merlins, but you can see a German built He 111 with Jumo engines on display in the RAF Museum at Hendon. After Spain retired this type in 1965 a large number of them, including this one, were used in the movie "Battle of Britain", and later the Arizona wing of the Commemorative Air Force bought this aircraft, which had previously served as a personal and staff transport for none other than General Franco of Spain. Tragically, this aircraft and its crew of two were lost in July of 2003 when it crashed at Cheyenne, Wyoming after losing the left engine while approaching the airport for a landing.

 

[gekho]

This is the second of the two Casa 2111 acquired by the CAF, and acording to my sources, the only remainning Casa still airworthy.

 

[gekho]

Formerly B.21-57 (or DB.21-37) of the Spanish AF, this C-2.111 flew from Duxford and Bovingdon during the filming of "Battle of Britain" in 1967/68. Seen here being lifted into the HAM compound on Aviation Way at Southend Airport, after the closure it was dismantled and placed into store, finding its way to North Weald. Said to have been sold in the US but remains stored, now in Norfolk.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!