August 15^th, the Norwegian Aviation Museum in concert with volunteers from Dyrøya and Tromsø, recovered the tail of a Fw200 Condor outside Dyrøya. The Condor was shot down May 29^th 1940 by a RAF Hurricane from 46. Sqdn.

The recovery of the tail section is part of our long cooperation with the Deutsches Teknikmuseum, Berlin. Earlier the main wreckage was raised from Hommelvik close to Trondheim, and 2009 extra parts for the project was recovered from the mountain Kvitanosi near Voss. The Berlin Museum has hopes that we will see a Condor displayed in Berlin in due time. The rebuild of the tail section is done by volunteers from Lufthansa in Hamburg and the wings are rebuilt by a team from Airbus in Bremen.

Because of the extra weight of the silt collected inside the tail and also because of corrosion to the framework, a breakage occurred causing the tail to come loose from the aft fuselage when lifting from the seabed. We have hopes that the aft portion of the fuselage can be recovered at a later date.