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Focke-Wulf Fw 200 C-4

The Fw 200 C-4 introduced the bulky HDL 151 turret in the A-stand. While it had the advantage of allowing the gun to be reloaded in the air, its drag slowed the Condor by almost 20kph.



The biggest upgrade to the C-4 though was the installation of ASV radar as standard.
The U1 and U2 were armed transport versions, with the reversion to the original slim Fw 19 turret and the exposed B-stand gun being replaced by a similar Fw 20 turret. The 2 sub-models differed in their passenger seating.
The U3 was a production run fitted with the Rostock radar.
The U4 was a pair of long-range reconnaissance aircraft, fitted with additional fuel tanks and missing both the ventral bolas and the rear B-stand gun, with the low drag turret back in the A-stand.
A C-4 was used at Peenemunde for air testing of the Fieseler Fi 103, better known as the V1.

Very very nice Condor

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Focke-Wulf Fw 200 C-5 and C-6

The murkiest part of the Condor story is that of the C-5 to C-7, with many sources claiming that they didn't exist.



This appears to be the best current research on these aircraft, but may not be entirely accurate.
The C-5 was mostly a reworking of the armament of the C-4, and now including the Loft 7D bombsight as a factory fitting. The addition of extra weight in armour and fittings at the D-stand at the rear of the ventral bolas led to the tailwheel retraction mechanism being deleted to keep the aircraft in balance.
The C-5/FK aircraft were, like the C-3/U7, modified as test aircraft for the carriage of the Hs 292 anti-ship missile. And similarly, they ended its life as a transport.
The U1 is a strange fish. The design for the U1 called for an up-armed C-5 with a turret at the dorsal B-stand. Only one aircraft was built and it was famously shot down by a USAAF B-24 Liberator and crashed in Spain. At this time it was configured as the prototype for the long-range reconnaissance C-7 model, with the B-stand gun position blanked out.
The C-6 designation appears to have been applied at least 3 times, possibly including a trial of rubber de-icing boots in 1943.
The final design for the C-6 fitted an improved version of the A-stand turret. However production of these turrets was slow, and finished turrets were diverted to the Junkers Ju 290 project. As such most C-6's may have been initially completed as C-5's.
The trend of using current production versions of the Condor continued with the U2 version being created as a modernised replacement for the C-4/U2, using the same turrets as the C-4/U2. Additionally at least one combat C-6 was modified to passenger transport standard.
A single C-6 was modified as a test aircraft for the FuG 224 Berlin A radar, which was a reverse-engineered copy of the British H2S radar.

Focke-Wulf Fw 200 C-8

The last production Condor model.



Continuing from the C-5, the C-8 was fitted with FuG 200 Hohentwiel ASV radar as factory standard. Some earlier C-4 and C-5 aircraft had already been fitted with this radar in the field.
Additionally 2 aircraft were configured as U10 Hs 293 missile carriers with the extended venral bola to fit the FuG 203b Kehl control system.
Thanks to @Radome for the Hs 293 model.

British Condors

With the invasion of Denmark, one of the Danish Condors was stranded in Britain. The aircraft was impressed in to BOAC but did not fly significantly. After the war an unsuccessful attempt was made to restore the aircraft to Denmark.



After the German surrender several of the Leadership Flight's transport Condors were captured and taken to Britain. This aircaft probably survived the longest, being displayed at Farnborough.

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Soviet Condors

Several Condors were also captured by the Soviets during the War, most notably at Stalingrad. This one was flown by the Soviet experimental establishment. At least two aircraft were displayed amongst captured German war materiels at the museum at Gorki Park.



Three aircraft were also modified and used post-War for Arctic exploration. By 1950 the last aircraft was written-off in a landing accident.

Spanish Condor

Several Condors ended up being crashed or impounded in Spain.



Most ended being scrapped, but a single example was transferred to Iberia and then to the Spanish military. This aircraft continued flying until 1948.

A great addition to the Condor story, these other user profiles are great, I wasn't aware that the USSR had made some use of their captured stock.

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phew.. been a long time since i drawn planes


This one is a hell of a charmer, except all the refrences i got have no rivets so i need to eyeball pictures for that

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Junkers Ju 52/3m g5e floatplane

One of the German Ju 52's used for the invasion of Norway. This aircraft has been imortalised as the Corgi Aviation Archive model for the Ju 52 floatplane.