Luftwaffe Dornier 17 found intact off English coast

[FutureSpaceTourist]

[quote author=www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12997528]
The discovery of a unique German warplane off the Kent coast left experts "incredulous". New images suggest the Dornier 17 is still intact and there are hopes that it will go on show.

They called it "the flying pencil": a slim, elegant aircraft originally designed in 1934 to carry passengers, which by the start of World War II had been converted into a deadly weapon of war.

The Dornier 17 was one of the mainstays of the Luftwaffe bombing fleets which began their assault on British cities and RAF airfields in the summer of 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain.

A total of 1,700 Dorniers were built, but the plane discovered in Goodwin Sands is thought to be the last remaining one.

Dornier 17 Z-2, serial number 1160, of number 7 squadron, 3 Group, third Bomber Wing, was shot down on 26 August 1940 and made an emergency landing in the sea just off the Kent coast.

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[Retrofit]

Little more information given in the Fana dated October 2010 (rush translation, sorry):

The RAF Museum is working in collaboration with the organisation Wessex Archeology preparing an expedition to salvage this Do-17 resting underwater on Goodwin Sands situated 10km from Deal. This aircraft has been discovered two years ago.
According to historians, it should be Do-17Z WkNr 1160 from the III/KG-3's Staffel 7, shot down by a RAF Squadron 264's Boulton-Paul Defiant on August the 26th, 1949. The pilot, Feldwebel Willi Effnert, performed a wheel up emergency landing, on Goodwin Sands, then above sea-level, but the aircraft overturned.
The aircraft seems almost intact and RAF Museum plans to put it on show.

 

[InvisibleDefender]

credit to Port of London Authority:

 

[Jemiba]

It's done ! Here's the intact Do 17 !!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22846645

Not to be misunderstood, my deep respect for those, who salvaged this aircraft without
doing further damage to it. And thanks for starting the task to rescue, what may have been
the last, or at least best preserved Do 17 in the world.