Airfix HEINKEL HE.111 P2

The He-111 P2 5J+CN was among three Heinkels that operated during the attacks on the town of Andalsnes in Norway (1940). The aircraft took damage from the HMS Manchester. Its crew was caught unaware by a pair of Blackburn Skuas under the command of the No.801 Sqn. FAA of the HMS Ark Royal. Richard Gumbrecht force-landed his Heinkel as one of its engines caught fire and the other started failing before landing on a snow-covered mountain. The remaining crew members survived the wreckage, slowly making their way off the mountain. The aircraft survived, mostly intact, on the mountain for thirty years before it was salvaged and restored by the Norwegian AF Aircraft Collection.