Trying to ID He59 D-A+SA?, its history and fate

[Larry Hickey]

Adam,

Can you add W.Nr. ranges to this list of He59 subtypes? If we can get these defined, and add any further subtype refinements or details that anyone else can confirm, that would be most helpful in accurately completing our EoE Luft a/c loss/damages DB for 1939-40. Is it possible to hook these to specific W.Nr.'s?

Regards,

Larry Hickey
Eoe Project Coordinator

[Stig Jarlevik]

Well Larry

What I have is as follows for the Heinkel built ones (3 prototypes + 41 production aircraft)
HD 59a WNr 378 D-2214 later D-ARAR
HD 59b WNr 379 D-2215 later D-ABIF
He 59b WNr 442 D-2622 later D-AKIV
He 59C Wnr 528-543, 836-840
He 59D WNr 1510-1529

The Arado ones are tricky (122 are reported as built)
He 59D WNr 931 D-APUH, 933-935, 960, 1309-1332, 1628, 1725-1726, 1819-1831, 1834, 1839-1855, 1898, 1974-1996, 2584, 2595-2604, 2610, 2758, 2787, 2792-2798, 2827, 2862-2874, 2995

He 59E: 2863 and 2871 (included among the D-models above, since I am not 100% certain)

He 59N: conversions only

NOTE: Much of the Arado WNr above comes from loss reports and may be faulty plus some "in between" WNr are estimated by me to fill in ranges. This is dangerous, I know, but I did so with the hope that Seaplanes would come to the rescue...

Sources:
Volker Koos (Heinkel) of course
Roba/Ledet/Neulen: Les Hydravion etc Vol 1

Cheers
Stig

[Petrusja]

A bit late to the party, but I found three pictures of D-ASAM in the archives of the city of Vlissingen (Flushing), dated 30 June 1940, so hours before the shootdown! The source even adds that the aircraft arived at 11 am and departed at 6 pm. It's perfecty possible that it took off from Norderney nine hours later I suppose.

I uploaded two of the photos to AirHistory.

Photos in Flushing archives

Regards, Peter