Editing Dornier Do 215 (section)

==Surviving aircraft==
Until recently, none of the Dornier twin-engined bomber variants were thought to have survived. In September 2007, a Dornier Do 215 B was found largely intact in the shallow waters of the [[Waddenzee]], the [[Netherlands]]. This aircraft was flown by a Luftwaffe fighter ace [[Helmut Woltersdorf]]. On the night of 6/7 July 1941, Woltersdorf shot down a [[Vickers Wellington]], but his Dornier was damaged by return fire and crash-landed off the Dutch Coast.<ref>''Flypast'', No. 315, October 2007, p. 62</ref> The area where the Dornier came down was named as a seal sanctuary and thus it escaped the attentions of scrap merchants and souvenir hunters. At low tide the aircraft becomes visible.

The Aircraft Recovery Group from the Airwar Museum at Fort Veldhuis in [[Heemskerk]] received permission to partially recover the Do 215. The only missing part of the aircraft is the tail section which lies {{convert|70|ft|m|abbr=on}} to the rear of the main wreckage. The [[Daimler-Benz DB 601]] engines were recovered along with the starboard portion of the cockpit.<ref>''Flypast'', No.315, October 2007, p. 63.</ref>