[Seaplanes]

He 115N W.Nr. 3038 was the first of six such aircraft ordered by the Royal Norwegian Naval Air Service. First trest-flight in Rostock/Marienehe on 27.06.39. Taken over by the RNNAS on 14.07.39 and flown from Rostock/Marienehe to Horten, the main naval base in Norway. Nominally reg. LN-MAB for the transit flight only. Given RNNAS serial number F.50.
Late July 1939 transferred to No. 1 Air Group in Horten. To No.2 Air Group at Bergen/Flatöy on 04.10.39. To No. 3 Air Group at Tromsö/Skattöra on 17.10.39. Flown from Tromsö/Skattöra to Salmijärvi in Finland on 08.06.40. Taken on strength by Erillinen Lentue X on 27.06.41 with finnish serial number He115. This unit was renamed 1. Lentue/Lentolaivue 15 on 30.06.41. Crashed at Lake Tugasjärvi, approx. 100 km east of Lake Onega on 04.07.43 while on a cladestine operation. It had run into an ambush and after one fuel tank had exploded it had to make a forced landing on a lake. The crew became POW's. This is the brief history only.