Luftwaffe foreign Flying boat

[kaki3152]

Is this a LeO 246? The tail doesn't look right, clear Luftwaffe markings.

[mhuxt]

SE 200.

[Chris Goss]

SCNASE SE 200 coded 20+01. Flown to Germany Jan 44 but sunk at moorings on Lake Constance by Allied aircraft in Apr 44

[Stig Jarlevik]

It can also be added that 20+01 was c/n 1 (some state 01 since it was the first prototype) and ex F-BAHE. First flight on 8.10.1942.
In May 1943 it received its German code 20+01.
It remained for quite awhile at Berre/Marignane and made very few flights in 1943 (its 22nd total flight was made on 3.11.1943). Not sure which was the first date in Jan 1944 when it was flown to Germany since it seems to have failed a couple of times....
Destroyed on 13.4.1944 on Lake Constance as Chris stated
Cheers
Stig

[FalkeEins]

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
Cheers
Stig

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

[Stig Jarlevik]

Well Falke

My source is Gerard Bousquet.
Have not come across your source so it seems the 'French' has to sort this out.
I will check with an independent source which one is correct

Cheers
Stig

[kaki3152]

Thanks gentlemen for the answers. Another photo identified.

[FalkeEins]

Stig

..thanks for your extensive reply, sorry I didn't see it sooner! I've got a big blog post coming up on this machine. I'm hunting for any info currently on a possible evaluation undertaken by the Seetransportstaffeln - possibly something in Le Fana 346, part two of Bousquet's four-parter, the only issue I don't have currently..