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Old 8th Jan 2023, 11:31
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Sud-Est SE.200 Amphitrite

A large, six-engined seaplane ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sud-Est_SE.200_Amphitrite ), the prototype was destroyed at Lake Constance. The wikipedia article states: "The remains of the first SE.200 were raised by Dornier in 1966" and the link provided in evidence for that says:
C’est en septembre 1966 que la Dornier
Werke GmbH faisait parvenir à Sud-Aviation des
photos prises au lac de Constance montrant le SE-200
n° 1, sorti de l’eau après 22 ans passés au fond du lac.
Comme le soulignait alors Jean Liron dans Aviation
Magazine : « l’appareil avait conservé une apparence
de bon aloi qui fait honneur à la construction
française ».

A machine translation, improved by me, reads: It was in September 1966 that the Dornier Werke GmbH sent to Sud-Aviation photos taken at Lake Constance showing the SE-200 #1, out of the water after 22 years at the bottom of the lake. As Jean Liron pointed out in Aviation Magazine: The aircraft had retained an appearance of good quality which honors French construction».

(The machine translated appareil as camera; I changed it to aircraft. It had 'the construction French' where I have 'French construction'.)

So it looks as if this remarkable aircraft was raised from the depths of Lake Constance in 1966. What then? Scrapped?
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