Einar Sandvik

Thanks! Seems reasonable to me.

Thanks! Yes, I think this French factory perhaps was a small factory, producing only 21 Arado-planes before production was moved to Holland due to allied bombing and problems with the French workers, so supplies of paint was not exhausted very fast, I think. Besides, in those days there where shortages in supplies and old paint probably had to be used before new was introduced. Could the seat possibly have been unpainted aluminium?

DH, of course. Thank you! IPMS Norway has an ongoing project building models for the airplane collection at Gardermoen, and I am building a model of this particular plane as it looked like in Norwegian markings during spring 1946. My concern is about interior colours, which seemed to differ from official regulations in November 1941, seemingly painted RLM 02 when it should have been RLM66.

There are several pictures of this aircraft, but now I am interested in comments of the interior.

Now?

Entering sweedish territory on February 11. in 1943 this Arado 196 A-3 with codes NH+ZF was forced to land in Sweeden and was stored. This plane was originally built by S.N.C.A. de L'Ouest in St. Nazaire in France in 1942 as number 6 out of only 21 built there. German authorities prescribed a change in interior colour for planes from RLM 02 to RLM 66. Beeing built well into 1942 one should expect this plane have its interior painted RLM 66, but the seat and back of observers cabin looks painted RLM 02 to me. Comments?