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Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik
It can also be added that 20+01 was c/n 1 (some state 01 since it was the first prototype)
Destroyed on 13.4.1944 on Lake Constance as Chris stated
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Stig
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Only three of the five SE.200s ordered were actually built (at Marignane, Marseilles). Work on them continued after the fall of France, while work on a fourth and fifth machine was started. The first aircraft, christened Rochambeau flew on 11 December 1942. Following testing, it was seized by the Germans and taken to the Bodensee (Lake Constance), where it was destroyed in an air-raid by RAF Mosquitoes on
17 April 1944 (cf. Hartmann " L'hydravion le plus rapide du monde.."). A USAAF raid on Marignane on 16 September destroyed the second SE.200. Aircraft no. 3, coded F-BAIY made its maiden flight on 2 May 1946..on 30 July 1946 it flew a test flight at its maximum TOW of 70 tonnes. It made its last flight in 1949 but wasn't scrapped until 1963