This site was created to show the history of the Dornier Do24, a flying boat developed by Dornier for the Dutch Navy in 1934. The design was later also adopted by the Luftwaffe and proved to …

The X-4 was flown by Dornier pilot Erich Gundermann and Dutch Naval pilot J.W.F. Backer. The armament of the first 12 Do24K-1's consisted of three Alkan gunturrets, each equipped with a …

The Do-24 V3 and Do-24 V4 were the third and fourth prototype, but were the first two prototypes to fly. Both were part of the first Dutch order for six aircraft and were equipped with three …

The HD.5-4 was handed over to Dornier and flew to the Bodensee on August 6th via Marseille and Lausanne, arriving at Dornier on August 28th in the presence of Flugkapitän Horst Merz …

Dornier now had competition of the Ha-138 design of the Hamburger Flugzeugbau (later Blohm und Voss), also a three engined flying boat. It was decided to build four prototypes, the Do-24 …

Now they saw their chance clear to get their hands on the impounded Dutch Do24’s. June 1940 Flugkapitan Karl Born, commander of Seenotflugkommando I Norderney, came to Aviolanda …

Starting in 1943 the Dornier company was working on an improved version of the Do-24 to get it better suited for rescue and reconnaissance work. This resulted in a study for the Do-318.

Do-24K-1 Reconnaissance Technical Data

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