This 5./KG 4 He 111 crash landed on 26 April 1940 on snow covered Digervarden, near Lesjakog in Oppland, after being damaged by gunfire from HMS Manchester and Skuas of 801 Squadron from HMS Ark Royal.
The main display hall at Gardermoen houses 3 RNoAF F-5s: F-5B 387 (64-13387), F-5A 208 (66-9208), both of 336 Skvadron and unmarked RF-5A 105 (68-9105). In front of the museum is F-5B 595 (65-10594) in a 336 Skvadron Tiger c/s.
This former Luftwaffe Starfighter (27+71 and ex USAF 63-8469) served with the 58th TFTW at Luke AFB before joining the RNoAF's 331 Skvadron at Bodø in June 1975. 469 was flown to Gardermoen on 13 July 1982.
From 1974 until 1982 '818' operated with 334 Skvadron and spent some time as BDR-trainer at Kjevik at the Luftforsvarets Tekniske Skole Senter. The aircraft was scrapped in 2010 with the cockpit section coming to Gardermoen for display.
In 1979, the wreck of N-3PB 'U' of 330 Squadron (based at RAF Reykjavík, with flights at Akureyri and Budareyi) was recovered from the Þjórsá River in Iceland, were the aircraft made a forced landing on 21 April, 1943.
For many 104 enthusiasts it only takes seconds to bring back the sounds of this iconic aircraft in the ears, even in the cockpit of the engineless 104818.
Restored and fin and rudder of 0880119 in the RLM70/71/65 scheme. The code 'U4' and the Balkenkreuz are almost as found during recovery in August 2004.
This Lodestar, built as C-60A-5-LO for the USAAF (serial 42-55983), is finished in a wartime BOAC c/s as used on the 'Stockholm Route', from Stockholm/Bromma and RAF Leuchars in Scotland.
This emblem of 4./KGrzbV 103, showing a map of Great Britain being sliced by a dagger, was used only for about one month during the Norwegian campaign in April-May 1940.
On 13 April, 1940, ‘CA+JY’ of 4./KGrzbV 103 landed on the ice of Hartvikvatnet, near Narvik, northern Norway. With the arrival of spring, the ice melted and the Ju 52 sank to the bottom of the lake. The aircraft was recovered in 1983.
On 15 April, 1940, ‘U4+TK’ took part in KG30’s first mission from the frozen Jonsvatnet to attack installations at Namsos airfield. By the end of that month, the probably unserviceable Ju 88 sank to the bottom of the lake.
MH350 entered service with 485 (NZ) Squadron in August 1943 as 'OU-V' and became the personal a/c of P/O Johnnie Houlton until June 1944. The Spit transferred to 332 Squadron as 'AH-V' in the spring of 1945. After the war MH350 served with 331 Skvadron.
P42408 is ex RAF VT833 and entered Norwegian service with C Flight of 331 Skvadron, later renamed 336 Svadron. The Spitfire is a full-scale model (FSM) of MA755, an F.IXc of the Norwegian 331 Squadron, RAF, at North Weald in March 1943.
The emblem of 14. (Jabo)/JG 5 is on both sides of the cowling. The Jabostaffel was activated at the JG 5 base at Petsamo, Northern Finland, in February 1943.
The Fw 190s of 14.(J), the Jabostaffel of JG 5 were modified for the fighter-bomber role by the fitting of the centerline ETC-501 bomb rack and the removal of the outboard MG FF cannon.
On 5 October 1943, two Fw 190s of 14.(J)/JG 5, based at Petsamo, ran out of fuel in bad weather. Uffz Hans-Günther Kleemann parachuted to safety, but his aircraft, ‘Schwarze 3’ crashed some 40 kilometres west of Kongsfjord. The wreck was found in 198
On 13 April, 1942, after attacking Sovjet merchant vessels north of Hammerfest, ‘4D+AM’ of 4./KG 30, ran out of fuel. The crew abandoned the aircraft. 'AM' came down on high ground near Garddevarre, between Hammerfest and her base at Banak, Lakselv.
Ju 88 0881478 is on display at Bodø in the condition as found at the time of her recovery in 1988. On the port side of the fuselage the faint letters of a part of the Stammkennzeichen ‘BH+QQ’ can be discerned.
One of three VFW-614s to serve the Flugbereitschaft of the German Defence Ministry, 17+02 served from 1977 until 1998 from its base at Köln-Wahn. For a short period the aircraft was with Muk Air as OY-RGT. She came to the Aeronauticum in 2003.
The 16 German Gannets, 1 T.5 and 15 AS.4 aircraft, came from a cancelled batch, originally destined for the Royal Navy. So XG853 became UA+113 and served with the ASM Geschwader at Schleswig and later MFG 3 at Nordholz. Now preserved at the Aeronauticum.
Bearing some resemblance with the hardened aircraft shelters at her former base at Eggebek, 22+98 is hardly protected against the elements. The F-104G started her service career with the Luftwaffe as KE+481.
From December 1984, JBG-77 operated the Su-22M-4 and some M-3K two-seaters from Laage. Built in the Sovjet Union, the NVA/LSK aircraft had all been reassembled and test flown at Rothenburg by Sovjet personnel. The other Laage-based M-4 unit was MFG-28.