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This is a very rare Navigation equipment panel with maker label attached to the back of it still with most of its maker markings clear to see. The panel is located in the middle of the fuselage in the Navigator’s position.
This aluminium made panel is missing all of its part attached to front of it and has some damage from the impact of the crash it has ripped and bent. The panel still with lots of original black paintwork it has been very nicely cleaned but is still dirty in places from the recovery but still retains a lot of its original colours and is a nice size at 11 inches long by 6 inches wide it is perfect for display or any collection. The panel is from German Focke-Wulf Fw 200C-4 Condor number 0140 on return from patrol crashed in to mountains in Norway on 27 December 1942.The part comes with 2 x A5 laminated information cards with pictures also diagram and map.
On 27 December 1942, a German Focke-Wulf Fw 200C-4 Condor (Werk-Nummer 0140, code F8+AK) belonging to the Luftwaffe unit 2./I./KG 40 crashed into Mount Kvitanosi in the Stølsheimen mountains of Hordaland, Norway. The maritime patrol aircraft struck the mountain slope in severe winter weather while returning to its base at Stavanger-Sola. Out of the six crew members on board, four were killed—including pilot Oberleutnant Waldemar Hackel—while two injured crewmen survived a grueling trek down the mountain to find help. Today, wreckage remains on the mountain, though significant sections (including the port wing) were recovered in 2009 to aid in a major Fw 200 restoration project.
Fatalities (4 KIA):
Oberleutnant Waldemar Hackel (Pilot / Officer in Command)
Unteroffizier Adolf Liebscher (Pilot)
Feldwebel Erwin Kopp (Radio Operator)
Gefreiter Karl Pech [1]
Survivors (2 injured):
Unteroffizier Walter Schwartz (Radio Operator)
Gefreiter Fritz Albrechts (Mechanic)
This is a very rare item from an aircraft flown by a famous German ace it is a electrical distribution box for the MG 131/151 machine guns which distributes and switches power to the aircraft’s armament components,
The box is aluminium made still with some electrical connectors still attached and with lots of original gray paintwork and red undercoat primer still with lots of original colour it is 7 inches long and 4 half inches wide in size it has some damage from the crash and being buried but nothing bad. The box is still very solid and have been very well cleaned it is perfect condition for display or any collection. The part comes from Messerschmitt Bf 110 number 5477 flown by ace Hauptmann August Geiger shot down on 29 September 1943 in the Netherlands. The part comes with 2 x A5 laminated information sheets with pictures also map and diagram.
On the night of September 29, 1943, the German Luftwaffe night fighter Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 (Werknummer 5477 / squadron code G9+ER) took off from Twente airfield to intercept Allied bombers. Flying with the unit 7./NJG 1, the aircraft was shot down at 20:35 over the Netherlands by British Wing Commander J.R.D. "Bob" Braham in an RAF No. 141 Squadron Beaufighter. The damaged twin-engine fighter plunged into the IJsselmeer (Zuider Zee) approximately 8 kilometres northwest of Harderwijk. Both crew members, the decorated ace Hauptmann August Geiger and his radio operator Feldwebel D. Koch, lost their lives in the crash and are buried today at the Ysselsteyn military cemetery.
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This is an authentic, glass-framed aluminium internal equipment mounting panel which still has some of its green paintwork remains very clear to see.
The aluminium panel was torn away by the impact of the crash but remains in good, solid condition. It has been carefully cleaned while preserving its original character and wartime patina.
The relic is presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with aircraft information and diagram, making it an excellent display piece for any aviation or Second World War collection. The frame measures approximately 13 inches by 13 inches.
The part is from British RAF Lancaster bomber Mark I (serial number NF923), of 617 squadron, shot down by German night ace Hauptmann Schnaufer on 23–24 September 1944 and crashed in the Netherlands
The Avro Lancaster Mark I (serial number NF923), sporting the squadron code KC:M, was a heavy bomber assigned to the elite No. 617 Squadron RAF—famously known as the "Dam Busters". Before its final fateful sortie, this robust four-engine aircraft was utilized for highly specialized precision operations. This included operating out of Yagodnik in the Soviet Union just a week prior to its loss, during an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz on 15 September 1944. Built to carry the war's heaviest munitions, NF923 was modified with a specialized bomb bay specifically designed to accommodate the 12,000 lb "Tallboy" earthquake bomb, an immense weapon engineered by Barnes Wallis to destroy heavily fortified infrastructure.
The aircraft met its end during the night of 23–24 September 1944 after taking off from RAF woodhall spar at 19:18 on a mission targeting the Dortmund-Ems Canal at Ladbergen, Germany. While en route, the Lancaster was intercepted at an altitude of 3,900 metres by the lethal German night fighter ace Hauptmann Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of Stab IV/NJG1. Enemy cannon fire rapidly knocked out three of the Lancaster's engines and ignited a fierce blaze inside the bomb bay. Compounding the crisis, the crew was completely unable to jettison their massive Tallboy bomb. Recognizing the imminent danger, the pilot, Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Stevenson Stout DFC, courageously held the burning aircraft steady to allow his six crew members to bail out. Moments later, the bomber plunged from the sky and crashed on the Vordensebinnenweg near Lochem, Netherlands. Flt Lt Stout died at the controls, while two other crew members eventually succumbed to their injuries; the remaining four survived via evasion or capture
This is an authentic, glass-framed group of parts recovered from a German Messerschmitt bf 109 shot down in Battle of Britain. The relics still retain traces of there original wartime finish, making them attractive and increasingly scarce pieces from one of the Luftwaffe's most recognisable aircraft.
There is 4 aluminium airframe sections which were torn, bent and distorted by the impact of the crash all of the parts remain in good, solid condition with paintwork. They have been carefully cleaned while preserving there original character and wartime patinas.
The relics are presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with aircraft information and diagrams showing where the parts went on the aircraft, making them a excellent display piece for any aviation or Second World War collection. The frame measures approximately 13 inches by 13 inches in size.
The parts come from German Messerschmitt bf 109 work number 2803 which was shot down in combat with RAF fighters during the Battle of Britain. The aircraft crashed and exploded at Skinners Corner, Mascalls near Paddock wood at 2.30pm on the 15th September 1940. The pilot Leutnant. F.Klotz was killed.
This is an authentic, glass-framed group of parts recovered from a German Junkers Ju88 bomber shot down in Battle of Britain. The relics still retain traces of there original wartime finish, making them attractive and increasingly scarce pieces from one of the Luftwaffe's most recognisable aircraft.
There is a aluminium section also 2 maker labels one of which is a machine gun oil bottle and the other is a radio switch panel both with clear to see maker markings both not to badly damaged the panel was torn, bent and distorted by the impact of the crash all of the parts remain in good, solid condition. They have been carefully cleaned while preserving there original character and wartime patinas.
The relics are presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with aircraft information and diagrams showing where the parts went on the aircraft, making them a excellent display piece for any aviation or Second World War collection. The frame measures approximately 13 inches by 13 inches in size.
The parts come from German Junkers Ju88 bomber work number 317 on the 16th October 1940. This bomber was on a raid over London but before it got there it crashed in a very large explosion and burned out in the Village of Much Hadham near Bishops stortford Church in Essex during Battle of Britain.
All the crew were killed they were Hauptmann Erich Hass, Feldwebel Josef Kessels, Feldwebel Gunther Suhr and war correspondant Anton Doppelfeld.
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This is a nice and very rare massive centre fuselage section from beneath pilots cockpit the aluminium and steel structure section with lots of its blue undercoat primer paint remains this was only used by Japanese air force. The part still has its steel connector bracket on one side and is a few parts still connected together it has been nicely cleaned and retains a lot of its original colours it has ripped, bent and smashed by the impact of the crash it is 26 inches by 10 inches in size and is perfect for display and a rare one for the collection. The part has been recovered from the crash site of a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter shot down and crashed during the air war over the Island of Guadlcanal from the 1942-1943 battlefield. A very rare part to get hold of from the war in the Pacific.. The part comes with 3xA5 laminated information cards with pictures and diagrams.