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Re: BV 222
Hi, history of this aircraft was someting like this.
366 / 002 Bv 222 A / V2 [2nd Prototype, Military Transport 6 x BMW Bramo Fafnir 323 R engines] Deutche Lufthansa (ntu) - CC+ER Luftwaffe 1941 ff 07.08.1941 - coded X4+BH LTS (See) 222 10.08.1942 - used on transport duties between Athens, Derna and Tobruk autumn and winter 1942 to 1943 - ret to Travemúnde 1943 - LTS (See), damaged 15% by engine trobles enroute Travemúnde to Warna 22.02.1943) - cv [Fernaufklärer with FuG 200 Hohentwiel Search Radar] - Aufklárungsstaffel (See) Bv 222 (France) Based at Bicarossi from May 1943 - Unit renamed 1.(F)/SAGr 129 in July 1943 - Unit disbanded June 1944 - Sent to overhaul in Germany - Detached to Billefjord, Norway 06.07.1944 [for support of Operation Schatzgráber and painted in Arctic Winter camouflage; this was an sucessfull rescue mission to a meteorological party at a secret radio station on Franz Josef Land, flown by Fw 200 C F8+RL of 2./KG 40] - Flew over and dropped spare wheel parts to the Condor on the night of 08/09.07.1944 but then returned to Billefjord - Stab./SAGr 130 (Norway) November 1944 - Still on strength 31.12.1944 - Surrendered at Bodöe Harbour, Norway 10.05.1945 - [when surrendered the code X4 had been painted in small letters before the cross] - RAF (no code or serial known) - tfd USAAF - tfd USN (no serial known: US Flag on fuselage) Ilau Basin, Trondheim 27.08.1945 - Scuttled near Trondheim, date unk ...45.
MTO band on fiselage was White *if you mean that.
cheers
ed
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