Roden 009 Heinkel He-111C 1:72

The summer of 1936 saw the beginning of the assembly of six pre-production planes, which received the designation He 111C-0. By the end of 1936 all six C-0's had been built, each aircraft received its own name:

He 111 C-01 Nurnberg (D-AMES),

He 111 C-02 Leipzig (D-AQYF),

He 111 C-03 Koln (D-AXAV),

He 111 C-04 Konigsberg (D-ABYE),

He 111 C-05 Breslau (D-AQUA),

He 111 C-06 Karlsruhe (D-ATYL).

After being used for a short time on local routes, DLH declared that the He 111C was too expensive, and not economical. The He 111C program was cancelled and all six pre-production C-planes were passed on to the "Prestigious Routes" Berlin-Hanover-Amsterdam, Berlin-Nuremberg-Munich, and Cologne-Dortmund-Berlin. Later on He 111C-01 and He 111C-05 were used as special courier planes in the Southern Atlantic.

In mid-1937 He 111C-03 was passed to a secret reconnaissance unit named "Commando Rowehl", commanded by Oberstleutinant Theodore Rowehl. It was a special photographic reconnaissance unit, whose aircraft bearing civil registration performed clandestine photographic sorties over Britain, France and the Soviet Union.