This is a glass-framed aluminium airframe section that still retains some of its original gray/green camouflage paintwork and a nice clean section. The part has ripped and bent by the impact of the crash, it is in very solid condition and has been carefully cleaned and retains most of its original colours . It is presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with background information and numerous photographs including the pictures of the crash site, making it perfect for display. The frame measures 9 half inches by 9 half inches in size.The part is from German Heinkel he 115 Seaplane of 3/kustenfliegergruppe 906 which was on a night intruder raid over England and crashed at 11.31pm on the 7th June 1940 in Suffolk.
The crew Oberleutnant Zur See A.Van Hullen and Feldwebel.L.Fehr both were killed.Feldwebel P.Randorf bailed out but died of his injuries on the 9th June 1940. The minelaying Heinkel 115s of kustenfliegergruppe 906 came down at Eyke near Woodbridge Suffolk in the grounds of Eyke Rectory on the night of June 7-8. Officially it is reported to have been disorientated by searchlights, but local people believe the pilot mistook a mist which often forms in this field for a sea mist and attempted to land the seaplane on what the pilot thought was water. As it hit the ground its mine exploded blasting a crater and scattering wreckage for hundreds of yards.
This is a glass-framed aluminium airframe section that still retains some of its original gray/green camouflage paintwork and a nice clean section. The part has ripped and bent by the impact of the crash, it is in very solid condition and has been carefully cleaned and retains most of its original colours . It is presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with background information and numerous photographs including the pictures of the crash site, making it perfect for display. The frame measures 9 half inches by 9 half inches in size.The part is from German Heinkel he 115 Seaplane of 3/kustenfliegergruppe 906 which was on a night intruder raid over England and crashed at 11.31pm on the 7th June 1940 in Suffolk.
The crew Oberleutnant Zur See A.Van Hullen and Feldwebel.L.Fehr both were killed.Feldwebel P.Randorf bailed out but died of his injuries on the 9th June 1940. The minelaying Heinkel 115s of kustenfliegergruppe 906 came down at Eyke near Woodbridge Suffolk in the grounds of Eyke Rectory on the night of June 7-8. Officially it is reported to have been disorientated by searchlights, but local people believe the pilot mistook a mist which often forms in this field for a sea mist and attempted to land the seaplane on what the pilot thought was water. As it hit the ground its mine exploded blasting a crater and scattering wreckage for hundreds of yards.
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