Fw.
Hüllenhütter performed a successful emergency landing on sea due to
engine problems. He jumped into the sea before the aircraft sank. Søren
Fjæran vitnessed the incident, rowed out and picked up the pilot from
the water. On 29.May Uffz.Hüllenhütter(I./JG5) ditched his FW 190
A-3 (Yellow 3) again. On 7. October the same year, Uffz.Hüllenhütter
finally ran out of luck, when his Bf 109 G-2 (WNr.10806) crashed in sea SW of
Egersund.
Flyet ble forsøkt
slept til land i 1966, men hektet og ble liggende opp ned. Ett av hjulene
fløt senere opp og ble tatt vare på. I 1974 ble flyet hevet opp
til overflata og slept inn til Trondheim. Flyet sank én gang til utenfor
Trondheim, før det omsider kunne bli heist på land.Tilstanden på
flyet var da etterhvert blitt noe redusert.
The
aircraft was discovered again in 1966 at a dept of 20m just off Orsand camping.
In summer 1974 the a/c was
raised by divers from Draugen in cooperation with Imperial War Museum.The aircraft
was in a bad state, parts of it were used in restoring other Messerschmitts
at the museum.