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Old 28th April 2014, 16:39
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Re: Heinkel He 115 WNr 2398 emerges from the sea near Stavanger

Hi Larry, i dont think they will find anything in Stavanger harbor.( Quite a distance from sola to Stavanger). Regarding wrecage on the bottom of sola sea plane base, the Germans proably have romoved them, or the rests have sunken into the deep mud. So it will be nearly impossible to find any rests. Your only chance is to use sonar equpiment.
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Old 28th April 2014, 17:36
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Re: Heinkel He 115 WNr 2398 emerges from the sea near Stavanger

Question...

Will the museum be preserving all the original paint? It would be a shame if the museum destroyed the history by stripping and re-painting.

The Me109G cowling the museum has on it's current 109 proejct was all original with all the orginal paint. When it was givien to the museum, it was under the condition that it was not to be re-painted. The museum repainted it anyway, which ruined all the history...

Before and after:









Very sad...
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Old 28th April 2014, 17:43
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That is a shame...
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Old 28th April 2014, 21:13
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Re: Heinkel He 115 WNr 2398 emerges from the sea near Stavanger

Ernst,

I should have looked at a detailed map of the Stavanger-Sola area before I posted that. The geography in that area is very complicated. I presume the seaplane base at Sola was where the He115s were lost during the attack on 17.04.40. I'm also presuming that this is in the small bay directly to the west of Sola, rather than in the much larger, more enclosed bay to the north. Would that be correct?

Has anyone ever seen any photos of wartime German salvage operations for sunken seaplanes at the at the Sola seaplane anchorage? I'd like to determine what happened to those aircraft.
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Old 28th April 2014, 21:20
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Re: Heinkel He 115 WNr 2398 emerges from the sea near Stavanger

Dont blame the hole museum for what one person ment he had the right to doo. So hopfuly the world have learnt from it.
Regarding the He115 there is no permanent desition yet, as we will se how it evolve. The clue now is too keep the outer paint " wet ", so it dont dry out.
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Old 28th April 2014, 21:25
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Re: Heinkel He 115 WNr 2398 emerges from the sea near Stavanger

Hi, Larry

You should get a marker for Flyhistorisk Museum Sola on the Google map, showing the location of the old hangar (and now museum) at Sola-See. Use the Street view function and take a look :-)

This is north of Sola, and even if I am not a specialist on operations from Sola, but my impression is that they used what you call the enclosed bay. I suppose that the Solastrand area was not suitable for sustained operations due to weather conditions.

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Old 28th April 2014, 21:27
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Re: Heinkel He 115 WNr 2398 emerges from the sea near Stavanger

PS!

Yes, I have seen photographs of wartime aircraft salvage operations both at Sola, Trondheim and Hommelvik.

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Old 2nd November 2014, 00:19
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Re: Heinkel He 115 WNr 2398 emerges from the sea near Stavanger

Some News from the He115 project: The nose is now parted in two, first test with Dry-ice blasting is performed on the cocpit section. The wather is drained out of the tank, and we have started the proces of cleaning and protecting the wings, center section, rest of the aircraft with lanoline.
For details see:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/108070...5/15662021595/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/108070...5/15611865352/


We have also discowerd a new WNr on the Rh wing ( 2099 ). A wing replacement was done proably in september 1942.
Any one have mor info on this " bird "

Juni 1940 - bei 1./ Küstenfliegergruppe 706 in Aalborg (2)
10.06.1941 - Südhafen Aalborg, Motorausfall, beschädigt zu 50 % (2)
22.06.1942 - Aalborg, wieder einsatzklar (2)
Juli 1942 - bei 1./ Küstenfliegergruppe 906 in Billefjord/Tromsö (2)
14.09.1942 - Qu. 6250/27 Ost, Angriff auf PQ 18, Notlandung infolge schlechten Wetters am Nordkap, Landungsbruch 100% (2)


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