In late May, the team behind the incredible restoration of a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, salvaged from Norwegian waters in 1999, revealed that the project to rebuild the aircraft is now complete. Ditched by its crew off the Norwegian coast near Trondheim in 1942 following technical issues, the aircraft sank to a depth of some 200ft (65m) and lay dormant until it was discovered in 1988. Recovered more than a decade later in an operation led by the Berlin-based Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology), the badly corroded and damaged wreck has been the subject of a mammoth 19-year restoration by more than 150 volunteers from the likes of the Condor Restoration Project, Airbus, Rolls-Royce and the Lufthansa Berlin Foundation. With the work complete, the Condor was handed over to Deutsches Technikmuseum, which in turn dismantled the aeroplane and transported it to the former Berlin-Tempelhof Airport, where it will be reassembled and put on public display. The aircraft arrived there just after midnight on June 24.
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