I was trying to look up info on what I assume is an observation port attached to the belly of the plane and instead found this:
"Only one relatively complete Fw 200 exists today. This aircraft was raised from the Trondheimsfjorden in Norway in 1999. Despite disintegrating on recovery, the remains were transported to the German Museum of Technology in Berlin to be rebuilt there. A request from the museum for a set of separate wings to be recovered from the Kvitanosi mountain near Voss in Norway to complete the rebuild was at first denied, because the local population wanted the wings to be left in situ as a war memorial. A compromise was reached in 2008 where parts not needed for the restoration would be left on the mountain. During autumn of 2009 parts were moved down by helicopter and made ready for transport to the Museum of Technology."
"The attempt to salvage the wreck ends in disaster. Suspended from the crane, the plane breaks up. It is the start of an adventure: for two decades a group of pensioners in Bremen and beyond has devoted itself to the debris puzzle. Now, a masterpiece of aviation shines in new splendor: The legendary Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, a German all-metal four-engined monoplane originally developed by Focke-Wulf as a long-range airliner."
"After Condor’s failed recovery by the German Museum of Technology, the project partners Rolls-Royce, Deutsche Lufthansa Berlin Stiftung, the museum and Airbus in Bremen came together to tackle Condor’s restoration through a partnership agreement.
Airbus financed the restoration and provided hangars and technology. The ‘Condorians’ built the majority of the fuselage, the cockpit and the wings at Airbus in Bremen. In Hamburg, the Lufthansa Berlin Stiftung restored the landing gear, the tail unit and the rear fuselage, and Rolls-Royce revamped the four engines."
From This:
To This:
And finally.....
The aircraft at its final destination, Berlin Tempelhof in 2021
Nice site to see how they did the restoration:
