Arado Ar240
Shaun Dench
I'm looking for information on the Arado Ar240, specifically the AR240C-02
night fighter. I have found a profile in Scale Aircraft Modelling August
1991, but little else. This shows an aircraft of JG5 coded T5+MH, but
doesn't give any details.
There is also a picture of an Ar240A-0, also with JG5 in Warplanes of the
Luftwaffe by David Donald, which was flying reconnaissance missions.
Revell do a 1:72 kit, which claims the type was tested as a night fighter.
The decals with the kit are for an aircraft B0+RC, but again no details are
given.
Thanks in advance for any help
Shaun
Lee Coll
sREMOVET...@cnn.net.au wrote on 9/22/02 4:20 AM:
I believe the Ar240 nightfighter profile in SAM was fictional; I don't
believe any of the C-02 types had the big ducted spinner of the A-O series.
Lee
Mark Schynert
Lee Coll <lee...@eatel.net> wrote:
The later Ar 240s and the Ar 440 are among the least documented of
Luftwaffe aircraft actually reputed to have flown. I have never seen a
photo of the Ar 440, for example (the only one so-captioned that I've
ever seen is actually a mis-captioned picture of the Ar 240V-1.) The
C-02 (this sequence would indicate the second pre-production C airframe,
so the type is C-0) was also the V-10 and is said by William Green to
have flown in the early summer of 1943. As such, it was the only
nightfighter example of the Ar 240 to fly. B0+RC is given as the code
for the V-10 in the Schiffer pub "Arado Ar 240", by Gerhard Lang
[Luftwaffe Profile Series #8, 1996]. Other codes listed there:
V-1 DD+Q1
V-2 DD+CE
V-3 KK+CD
V-5 GL+QA ?
V-6 GL+QB ?
A-0 [unknown werk-nummer] T5+YP
A-0 [unknown werk-nummer] T5+MH
A-0 240013 DI+CY
A-0 240014 DI+CZ
C-0 [unknown werk-nummer] T9+GL
As to this last one, there is no documentation that the other C
prototypes (V-9, -11, -12, -13, -14, -15) ever flew, which may mean that
the V-10 was the only C version to fly. In that case, it stands to
reason that it may have carried both B0+RC and T9+GL. I have photos only
with the latter codes, but this aircraft has no radar and is listed as
being used for recon missions in 1944. Alternatively, T9+GL may really
be an Ar 440 prototype, since the photo aspects do not preclude it.
However, I think it's an Ar 240C.
Mark Schynert
Shaun Dench
Shaun
"Mark Schynert" <mas...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Shaun Dench
do you still have the photos you mentioned? If you do, could you email
direct to me please. Only if it's not too difficult to get them.
It would be much appreciated.
Shaun
"Mark Schynert" <mas...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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Gunnar Olsen
This is the info I've sorted out so far, but I cannot guarantee that all the
information is correct. There are several opinnions about some of this info.
( this list is not complete, but I'm working on it. Please feel free to make
corrections.)
Regards
Gunnar
Arado 240/440
Ar 240 V1
2400001
DD+QL
First flight 25.06.1940
Destroyed 18.04.1941
DB601A/E
Unarmed
Ar 240 V2
2400002
DD+QM
First flight 15.09.1940
Last flight 05.11.1942
DB601A/E
2 MG17in wings
Stored, awaiting conversion to BMW 801J
Ar 240 V3
2400003
KK+CD
First flight 09.05.1941
September 1944 ?
DB601E
Unarmed
Supposed to receive Jumo 213, but never installed.
Rebuilt as a prototype for Ar 440, used as testbed
for pressurized cabin for the Ar 234.
Ar 240 V4
2400004
?
First flight 19.06.1941
Destroyed 07.08.1941
DB601E
Ar 240 V5
2400005
T5+MH
First flight 11.09.1941
Left in Russia winter 42/43, Described as destroyed by october 43
DB601E1
2 MG17in wings
2 MG81 Z in remote operated turrets.
Pre-series for Ar240 A0
Ar 240 V6
2400006
T5+KH
First flight 18.01.1942
Described as destroyed by october 43
DB601E0
Pre-series for Ar240 A0
Ar 240 A01
2400011
GL+QA
(other markings in operational service)
First flight 05.06.1942
Lost 16.02.1943
DB601E
2 MG17in wings
Auklarungsgruppe Ob.d.L 20.10.1942
Crashed serving with 3.(F)/100
Ar 240 A02
2400012
GL+QB
First flight 05.09.1942
Crash landed 25.01.1944
DB601E
Engine change in october 1943
Ar 240 A03
2400013
DI+CY
First flight 05.09.1942
Dammaged beyond repair
at first op. Flight, july 1943
DB601E
DB603A/0 w/4 bladed prop.
GM1 installed early 1943
Converted to A03/U1 during consruction
Test bed for C variant ?
Operational use in july 1943 with 2(F)/122
Ar 240 A04
2400014
T9+GL
First flight december 1942
Destroyed in autumn of 1944 during landing in Polen
DB603A/0
Converted to A04/U2 with wings like the C variant.
Ar 240 V7
2400009
DH+ZU
DB605A/1
Ar 240 V8
24000010
DB605A/1
1.(F)/100 08.01.1943
Ar 240 V9
24000017
Destroyed 31.10.1943
Prototype C series
Ar 240 V10
24000018
BO+RC
Fliht test until october 1943, converted to Ar 440 V0
Ar 240 V11
24000019
Not completed
Ar 240 V12
24000020
Not completed
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