Heinkel He 59
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Heinkel HE 59
Designed in 1930, the He 59 resulted from a requirement for a torpedo bomber and
reconnaissance warplane able to operate with equal facility on wheeled landing gear or
twin-float alighting gear. The He 59B landplane prototype was the first to fly, an event that
took place in September 1931 but it was the He 59A floatplane prototype that paved the way
for the He 59B initial production model, of which 142 were delivered in three variants. Later
developments were the He 59C-1 unarmed trainer, He 59C-2 air/sea rescue model, He 59D-1
combined trainer and air sea rescue model, H59E-1 torpedo bomber trainer, He 59E-2
reconnaissance trainer, and He 59N navigation trainer produced as He 59D-1 conversions. The
trainer models survived slighty longer in service than operational models, but all had been
retired or destroyed by 1944. Some aircraft were operated by the Legion Conder in Spain during
the Spanish Civil war in 1936 as coastal reconnaissance and torpedo floatplanes.
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