Ar 240 loss information

[Graham Boak]

The item of 0010 is very interesting, as this is one of the aircraft not readily (or even with difficulty!) identified in listings of the type. As you are probably aware, listings do tend to be contradictory.

I have information on the losses of 0013 (A-03) lost after crash landing in Northern Italy in early 1943 and A-04 (presumably 0014) lost in a crash landing on the Eastern Front in mid 1944, but they may need some digging out. The data for A-03 can be found in the Flugzeug/Schiffer Profile on the type.

0010 will need identifying as this may mean that photographs of the type have been misidentified. It may be a reference to the V-10, perhaps, but this has been linked to 0018 (if I remember correctly).

0011 and 0012 are the well-known A-01 and A-02.

Unidentified numbers are 007, 008, 009, 0010, 0015 and any higher.
Unidentified aircraft are the V7, V8, V9 and V10. V11 and V12 are not believed to have been built.

I have a pet theory that V7 was 0015, which would make V8 0016 and so on to V10 at 0018. This requires the numbers 007 to 0010 to be unused, earlier cancelled aircraft perhaps; a theory which cannot be correct if 0010 can be positively identified.