Editing Dornier Do 17 (section)

==Surviving aircraft==

===Dornier Do 17Z ''Werknummer'' 1160===
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Until 2007 none of the Dornier twin-engined bomber variants were thought to have survived intact, but various large relics of the Do 17 and Do 215 are held by public museums and private collectors.<ref>Edslöv, Mikael. [http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Luftwaffe/relics/Relics%20Dornier.htm "Preserved Axis Aircraft Worldwide."] ''Preserved Axis Aircraft,'' 17 March 2011. Retrieved: 22 April 2011</ref><!-- Photographs of the relics are provided under the "German aircraft" link at the right side of the website.--> In September 2007 a Do 215 B-5 (variant of Do 17Z) was found largely intact in the shallow waters off [[Waddenzee]] in the [[Netherlands]].<ref>''Flypast'', No. 315, October 2007, pp. 62–63.</ref> On 3 September 2010, the [[Royal Air Force Museum London|RAF Museum]] announced that a Do 17 had been discovered in {{convert|50|ft|m|abbr=on}} of water off the coast of England. The aircraft had been discovered in September 2008 on the [[Goodwin Sands]], a large sandbank {{convert|6|km|spell=in}} off the coast of [[Kent]], but the discovery was kept secret. The Dornier Do 17Z-2, ''Werknummer'' 1160, built under license by [[Henschel & Son|Henschel]] with the full ''Geschwaderkennung'' (combat wing aircraft ID code) of 5K+AR, was operated by 7 ''Staffel'', III ''Gruppe'', ''Kampfgeschwader'' 3.

On 26 August 1940, ''5K+AR'' was taking part in a raid by [[Kampfgeschwader 2|KG 2]] and KG 3, targeting the RAF stations [[RAF Debden]] and [[RAF Hornchurch]]. While flying over clouds, the aircraft became separated from the bomber formation and lost its bearings; it was then attacked by [[Boulton Paul Defiant]] fighters of [[No. 264 Squadron RAF]]. One of the Dornier's engines was disabled and the other damaged, so the wounded pilot, ''Feldwebel'' (flight sergeant) Willi Effmert, elected to make a crash landing on the Goodwin Sands. He and another crew member survived and were taken prisoner. The other two crew were killed; one is buried at [[Cannock Chase German war cemetery]] and the other in the Netherlands. The identity of the Defiant that shot down the Dornier is not certain, although it may have been one of three 264 Squadron aircraft that was shot down soon after in a battle with Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter escorts from [[Jagdgeschwader 3]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Simpson |first= Andrew |url=http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/Cosford/Dornier17/Dornier-Do17Z-Wnr-1160.pdf |title=Dornier Do 17Z Werke nr. 1160" |publisher=Royal Air Force Museum |date= 2010 |accessdate= 5 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{[http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/things-to-see-and-do/dornier-17-conservation/identification.aspx "Dornier 17 Conservation: Identification".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506024051/http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/things-to-see-and-do/dornier-17-conservation/identification.aspx |date=2013-05-06 }} ''Royal Air Force Museum,'' 6 December 2012. Retrieved: 5 May 2013.</ref>
[[File:Centerwing section RAFM.jpg|thumb|right|The wing section seen port side removed from tent for manual work (September 2014)]]
 
In June 2010 diving operations were carried out and the survey report indicated that the aircraft was largely complete, although ''5K+AR'' lay inverted on the seabed, indicating that it [[Ground loop (aviation)|ground-looped]] on landing.<ref name="do17survey" /> The port rudder, starboard stabiliser, forward nose glazing, undercarriage doors and engine cowling were missing, but the discovery of a small debris field associated with the wreck indicates that some or all of those parts may still be present at the site.<ref name="do17survey" >[http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/things-to-see-and-do/dornier-17-conservation/survey.aspx "Dornier 17 Conservation: Survey".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508065339/http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/things-to-see-and-do/dornier-17-conservation/survey.aspx |date=2013-05-08 }} ''Royal Air Force Museum,'' 6 December 2012. Retrieved: 30 March 2013.</ref> Some items, including two of the Dornier's six [[MG 15]] machine guns, are missing and are believed to have been removed by unauthorized divers sometime after the aircraft's discovery.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/Dornier/Aircraft_History.pdf | title=DORNIER Do 17Z Werke nr. 1160 | publisher=Royal Air Force Museum | date=2010 | access-date=27 April 2014 | author=Simpson, Andrew}}</ref>

On 10 June 2013, a salvage team raised the airframe from the seabed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2013/06/11/gallery-german-dornier-do-17-bomber-raised-from-english-channel-3836583/|title=German bomber raised from channel|date=2013-06-11|website=Metro|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-25}}</ref> It was then taken to the Michael Beetham Restoration Centre at the Royal Air Force Museum's [[Royal Air Force Museum Cosford|Cosford site]], where metallurgists from [[Imperial College London]] have a significant role in the post-recovery conservation of the aircraft.<ref>[http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/things-to-see-and-do/dornier-17-conservation.aspx "Dornier 17 Project Update."] ''Royal Air Force Museum'', 6 December 2012. Retrieved: 27 January 2013.</ref>

===Dornier Do 17M-1 (Hansakollen, Norway)===
On 2 July 1942, a Dornier Do 17M-1 crashed in Hansakollen in [[Maridalen]], near [[Oslo]], [[Norway]].<ref>[http://www.nrk.no/ostlandssendingen/krigshistorie-i-maridalen-1.5554219 "Wars in Maridalen."] ''NRK,'' 20 June 2008.</ref> The Do 17 was heading to the airport at [[Gardermoen]], but crashed into a mountainside. All three German aviators on board were killed. They are buried in the German war cemetery at [[Alfaset]]. The wreck is well preserved and remains clearly visible, nearly 80 years after the accident.

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