Utenfor flyplassen på Kjevik nord for Kristiansand, kan et vrak av en tysk Dornier 24 ses. Dette flyet skal ha sunket under den andre verdenskrig den 22. April 1945 etter å ha blitt skadet i kamp mot et Britisk Mosquito fly. Vraket av denne Do 24 hviler førti meter fra land på en dybde av tretti meter, som mange trodde var en Dornier 18 i ganske mange år. Nesepartiet og høyre vinge er fortsatt i god stand, men hale og venstre vinge er revet av og brutt ned. I cockpiten kan man fortsatt se instrumentering og styre kontroller. Vrakstedet kan lett nås fra land ved å kjøre mot den militære terminalen på Kjevik, og ta veien ned til høyre mot vannet like ved denne terminalen. Vraket hviler rett utenfor bryggekanten, nærmere førti meter fra land, og normalt merket med en bøye. Ved å følge denne bøyen ned i dypet, kommer man rett ned til venstre vinge på tyve meter, og cockpiten på en dybde av ca. tretti meter. Bakre del av flyet er temmelig ødelagt, men cockpit og fremre del er fortsatt i temmelig god stand. Lett sted å finne og å parkere...

Outside the airport of Kjevik north of Kristiansand, a wreck of a German Dornier 24 can be seen. This plane is supposed to have sunk under the second world war on 22. April 1945 after having been damaged by a British Mosquito airplane. The wreck of this Do 24 rest forty meters from shore on a depth of thirty meters, which many believed was an Dornier 18 for quite many years. The nose section and the right wing is still in a good condition, but tail and the left wing are ripped of and broken down. In the cockpit you can still see the instruments and steering controls. The wreck site can easily be reached from land by driving towards the military terminal on Kjevik, and take the road to the right down to the water close by this terminal. The wreck rest right outside the edge of the wharf, approximately forty meters from land, and is normally marked with an buoy. By following this buoy down in the deep, you reach down to the left wing on twenty meters, and the cockpit on depth of approx. thirty meters. The stern part of the airplane is quite devastated, but the cockpit itself and the front section is still in a quite good condition. An easy place to find and to park...

 

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Information from Bo Madsen June 2003;
"On your pages you talk about a aircraft DO 18 at Kjevik airport. I have been diving on the plane and have done a research job for some month. It's a DO 24. It was shot into fire and sunk April 22. 1945. There were no people on the plane as it was laying on the water,- ready for "take-off".

After the first order for six Do-24K-1's by the MLD, the Dutch ministry of defense decided, because of the Japanese threats in the Indonesian archipelago, to change the order to 72 airplanes. The Dutch government however had one demand, that the aircraft were to be produced in The Netherlands under license. August 21st 1936 the necessary contracts were signed. The license production rights were sold separately and for every Do-24 build an extra som of money had to be paid to Dornier-Metallbauten G.m.b.H.. The only two factory's that were capable of building all metal airplanes and that had the time and people were De Koninklijke Maatschappij 'De Schelde' in Vlissingen ('Flushing') and Maatschappij voor Vliegtuigbouw NV 'Aviolanda' in Papendrecht. Because the Dutch navy demanded at least 4 new planes per month and Aviolanda was not able to handle this quantity (yet) it was decided to include De Schelde in the production process, handing them the building of the complete wing (including engines and struts) and the fuel tanks, while Aviolanda handled the remainder of the aircraft and the final assembly. The first order for the X-1 up to the X-6 , which were build by Dornier, started late 1937. The X-1 up to X-3 were transported directly to the Dutch East Indies and the remainder was first flown to Aviolanda to be equipped with Dutch requirements and to be flight-checked. The Dutch equipment consisted of the Gun turrets and the application of the Dutch insignia. During the flight from the Bodensee to Aviolanda the Do-24's were painted with the German registration D-AYWI .The first Do-24K-1 to arrive at Aviolanda was the X-4 on March 18th 1938. Only seven Do-24K-1's were delivered when the war broke out for The Netherlands on May 10th 1940. The Germans captured the Aviolanda factory intact and found over 13 Do-24K-2's in several stages of building. The stockrooms were filled with material for another 16 examples.


Edited 29.06.2007