Ar 240 loss information

[Graham Boak]

Accepting this logic, the question that now arises is how the original V7 and V8 differed from the ones eventually built, for it seems wasteful and illogical to cancel earlier airframes just to repeat the same work on the next two along. And then shuffling along the "A-01" title to the third airframe? Odd.

A-03 and A-04 were more severely modified, yet didn't get V-numbers but only suffix modifiers (A-03/U, if I recall correctly). More inconsistency.

As for 0015/16, "could be" B-0s or could be anything - is there the slightest suggestion of any order for B-0s?

I hope you see that what I am saying is not that the current description is necessarily wrong, but that it raises more questions than answers.

[Pawel Burchard]

Mankau does not give any clue about 0015/16 - that they could be assigned to B-0s was only my guess

That V8 was indeed 0010 is indirectly confirmed by 3./100 Bestands-Mldg. and GQM loss report.

My understanding is that original V7/8 build was not cancelled, only W.Nrn. were reassigned. Maybe there was no logic involved, only bureaucracy.

p.

[Seaplanes]

I can give some info on the prototypes and production of the Ar 240 based on the RLM aircraft production programs:

Flugzeug-Programm Nr. 19 von 1.7.1941 giving the status on 30.09.1940:
Ar 240V-1 W.Nr. 240-0001 2 x DB 601.
Ar 240V-2 W.Nr. 240-0002 2 x DB 601.
Ar 240V-3 W.Nr. 240-0003 2 x DB 601E.
Ar 240V-4 W.Nr. 240-0004 2 x DB 601E.
Ar 240V-5 W.Nr. 240-0005 2 x DB 601E.
Ar 240V-6 W.Nr. 240-0006 2 x DB 601E.
Only V-1 to V-3 had been delivered and was in the test programme by this date.

Flugzeug-Programm Nr. 222 von 1.11.1942 giving the status on 30.09.1942:
Ar 240V-2 W.Nr. 240-0002 2 x DB 601.
Ar 240V-3 W.Nr. 240-0003 2 x DB 601E.
Ar 240V-5 W.Nr. 240-0005 2 x DB 601E.
Ar 240V-6 W.Nr. 240-0006 2 x DB 601E.
Ar 240V-7 W.Nr. 240-0009 2 x DB 605.
Ar 240V-8 W.Nr. 240-0010 2 x DB 605.
Ar 240V-9 W.Nr. 240-0017 2 x DB 603.
Ar 240V-10 W.Nr. 240-0018 2 x DB 603.
Ar 240V-11 W.Nr. 240-0019 2 x DB 603.
Ar 240V-12 W.Nr. 240-0020 2 x DB 603.
The V-5 and V-6 had been delivered to the Versuchsstelle für Höhenflug in Oranienburg. The remaineder were with Arado Brandenburg in various test programs.

By 30.6.42 no production aircraft had left the assembly line. The expected production was:
4 Ar 240A-0 built by Arado Brandenburg with 2 x DB 601E engines.
18 Ar 240B-0 built by Ago with 2 x DB 605 engines.

[Pawel Burchard]

Thanks for the details Seaplanes. I still wonder what ever happened to 0015/16 W.Nrn. Assigned to A-05/06 perhaps and then cancelled due to V7/8 W.Nr. shift?

p.

[Pawel Burchard]

Originally Posted by Graham Boak

is there the slightest suggestion of any order for B-0s?

Yes there is, and that later it was cancelled. Do not have the book at hand so cannot be more precise.

p.

[RT]

I found those ones

AR240 1 0001- DD+QL 6 40
AR240-V2 2 0002- 6 4 41
AR240-V3 3 0003- 9 5 41
AR240-V4 4 0004- 6 41
AR240-V5 5 0005- 11 9 41
AR240 6 0006- 10 1 42
AR240 9 0009- 3 43
AR240 10 00010- 1 43
AR240A-01 11 0011- 6 42
AR240B-02 12 0012- 8 43
AR240A-02 12 0012- 9 43
AR240A-04 14 0014- DI+CZ 12 42
AR240-V10 18 9 43
AR240-V6 T5+KH 7 42
AR240-V7 DH+ZU 4 43
AR240A-04 DI+CZ 5 43
AR240A-03 DI+CY 4 43
AR240 GL+QA 8 42
AR240 KK+CD 23 9 43

Remi

[Pawel Burchard]

Hi Remi, are these from Flugbuch entries?

[RT]

Right Kröger+Eheim

Remi