[Seaplanes]

Hi Stephen,

A constructors number was never repeated so that possibility is out of the question. The most likely theory is that some clerk made a typo for the 1944 report.

Secondly, please do not believe everything you see on the net. The production of the He 115 was 100% done by Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in Marienehe/Seestadt Rostock. "Weser" was only involved in a conversion programme to give the He 115 a longer range. Commencing in May 1940, a total of 97 aircraft were given encresed fuel capacity in the wing tanks.

There has also been published in several books that the He 115 was reinstated into production in 1944. This is utterly wrong. The last He 115 left the Heinkel production line in July 1940. The only exception being one replacement aircraft for Sweden and six aircraft for the second Norwegian contract. These seven aircraft were impressed by the RLM for Luftwaffe use and they might have been completed shortly after July 1940.

Please also note that by the end of 1938, only four He 115 prototypes had been delivered. Series production started in January 1939 with a single
He 115A-0. A total of 13 He 115A-0 and He 115A were delivered, some of them being given V-series designations like V-5, V-6 and V-7.