RS Models – 92244 – Dornier Do-22

Description:

Dornier Do-22

Unassembled plastic model kit in 1/72 scale of a German produced Dornier Do-22 seaplane, produced during 1938-39, with only around 30 units built, all of them for export market, as type did not entered service with Luftwaffe.

Finland, Greece, Yugoslav and Latvia were its operators. Kit includes decal sheet with Latvian and Finnish markings. Kit can be also built without float planes, but fixed wheels (This version, named Do 22L is based in a single prototype built, never entered production). Latvia acquired 4 planes, but they weren’t delivered before the Soviet Union invasion, then they were transferred to Finland.

• 1. Dornier Do 22, Dr-196, 1/LeLv 6, C.W.O. S. Laatala, Santahamina, August 1942
• 2. Dornier Do 22, export for Latvia, undelivered due invasion of Soviet Union in 1940 /alternate marking/
• 3. Dornier Do 22, D-OXWD, over painted Latvian markings, Friedrichshafen, 1941
• 4. Dornier Do 22, DR-195, W nr. 0027, civil reg. D-OXWF, 3/LeLv 6, winter 1942