{"id":32432818,"date":"2026-11-12T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/heinkel-he-111-luftwaffe-medium-bomber-blitz-casa-2111\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T09:22:47","slug":"heinkel-he-111-luftwaffe-medium-bomber-blitz-casa-2111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/heinkel-he-111-luftwaffe-medium-bomber-blitz-casa-2111\/","title":{"rendered":"Heinkel He 111: The Luftwaffe Bomber From Spain to the Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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It was the first evening of the Blitz. That photograph is the bomber most people still picture when they hear the word &ldquo;Luftwaffe&rdquo;.<\/p>\n\n<p>The He 111 was never the fastest German bomber, or the toughest, or the most modern. But for the first years of the war it was the most numerous, and it fought from Spain to Stalingrad, carried torpedoes and flying bombs, and kept flying with Rolls-Royce engines long after the Reich that built it was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Type:<\/strong> Twin-engined medium bomber, later also torpedo bomber and transport<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Designers:<\/strong> Siegfried and Walter G&uuml;nter, Heinkel<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> 24 February 1935<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Combat debut:<\/strong> 9 March 1937, Legion Condor, Spanish Civil War<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Crew:<\/strong> 5 (He 111H-16)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engines:<\/strong> 2 &times; Junkers Jumo 211 (H series); Rolls-Royce Merlin 500 on Spanish CASA 2.111B\/D<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Battle of Britain:<\/strong> About 242 He 111s destroyed, July to October 1940<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Licence build:<\/strong> CASA 2.111, Seville; served into the early 1970s<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A bomber disguised as an airliner<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Treaty of Versailles banned Germany from operating an air force, so early bomber work in the 1930s was dressed up as civil aviation. Ernst Heinkel handed the design to the brothers Siegfried and Walter G&uuml;nter, who built it as a twin-engined, scaled-up version of their record-breaking He 70 <em>Blitz<\/em>. It was often called the <em>Doppel-Blitz<\/em>, the double lightning.<\/p>\n\n<p>The first He 111 flew on 24 February 1935. Prototypes wore civil registrations and the airline version was promoted as the fastest passenger aircraft in the world. That is why the bomber had something unusual for a warplane: a row of cabin windows along the fuselage. From the start, though, the design was meant to give the new Luftwaffe a bomber.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;At the time of its entry into service in the late 1930s, it was one of the finest combat aircraft in the world.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Kris Hendrix<\/strong> &mdash; Researcher, Royal Air Force Museum, 2020<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Its rival, the Junkers Ju 86, flew at displays all over the world, but the Heinkel won the production race. On the eve of war the Luftwaffe counted 705 combat-ready He 111s, far more than the 533 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/do-17\/\">Dornier Do 17s<\/a>, making it the backbone of the German bomber arm alongside the Dornier.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Spain: the Legion Condor test<\/h2>\n\n<p>In early 1937 Germany sent its newest bombers to fight for Franco&rsquo;s Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Four He 111Bs arrived in February 1937 with a bomber unit of the Legion Condor, Kampfgruppe 88, and flew their first combat mission on 9 March 1937 against Republican airfields during the Battle of Guadalajara.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/heinkel-he-111e-legion-condor-spain-bomb-loading.jpg\" alt=\"Ground crew loading bombs onto a Heinkel He 111E of the Legion Condor in Spain\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Ground crew load bombs onto a Heinkel He 111E of the Legion Condor in Spain. The type made its combat debut there on 9 March 1937. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-C0214-0007-013,_Spanien,_Flugzeug_der_Legion_Condor_(cropped).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-C0214-0007-013 \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The Heinkel proved faster and able to carry more than the other German types sent to Spain, and losses were light at first. In all, 94 Heinkels went to the Legion Condor. Spain taught the Luftwaffe a dangerous lesson, however: because the He 111E could outrun enemy fighters there, the planners saw no need for heavier defensive guns. England would punish that mistake.<\/p>\n\n<p>When the Spanish war ended in April 1939, the 58 surviving Heinkels stayed behind and became the core of the new Spanish state&rsquo;s bomber force. That decision would echo for three more decades.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Battle of Britain and the Blitz<\/h2>\n\n<p>The He 111 led the Luftwaffe into Poland in September 1939, bombed shipping in the North Sea, supported the invasion of Norway and, on 14 May 1940, devastated large parts of Rotterdam. Then came Britain. Of the 34 bomber <em>Gruppen<\/em> committed against Britain in 1940, fifteen flew the He 111.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/heinkel-he-111-formation-luftwaffe-1940.jpg\" alt=\"A formation of Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 bombers in flight in 1940\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Heinkel He 111 bombers in formation in 1940, the year the type met the RAF&rsquo;s fighters over Britain. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-408-0847-10,_Flugzeuge_Heinkel_He_111.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-408-0847-10 \/ Martin \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The glass &ldquo;greenhouse&rdquo; nose gave a superb view but packed most of the crew into the place a head-on attack would hit first. Defensive armament of hand-held machine guns was too light against eight-gun <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/supermarine-spitfire\/\">Spitfires<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/hawker-hurricane\/\">Hurricanes<\/a>. The RAF Museum&rsquo;s collection notes put it bluntly: the bomber proved vulnerable because of inadequate defensive armament, low speed and poor manoeuvrability. Some 242 He 111s were destroyed between July and October 1940, though the type could absorb a lot of punishment and lost fewer machines than the Ju 88.<\/p>\n\n<p>One of them was He 111H-2 A1+DA of Kampfgeschwader 53, shot down over East London at 14:50 on 15 September 1940, after its crew had released twelve bombs near the Beckton gas works. The Kent Battle of Britain Museum believes it was probably brought down by Sergeant Bohum&iacute;r F&uuml;rst of No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z-e3iBIqgOQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">The RAF Museum&rsquo;s film on its He 111 H-20, the bomber captured in 1945 and flown to Britain by three American airmen.<\/p>\n\n<p>From September 1940 the He 111 became the main weapon of the night Blitz. Heinkels equipped with radio-beam blind-bombing systems such as X-Ger&auml;t, notably those of the pathfinder unit Kampfgruppe 100, marked targets with incendiaries for the bombers that followed. Coventry, Birmingham, Liverpool, Plymouth and Southampton all felt it.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Torpedoes, Stalingrad and flying bombs<\/h2>\n\n<p>As faster types such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/ju-88\/\">Junkers Ju 88<\/a> took over front-line bombing, the old Heinkel found new jobs. From Norway, KG 26 flew it as a torpedo bomber against the Arctic convoys. On the Eastern Front it busted trains, flew supplies into the Demyansk pocket, and joined the doomed airlift to Stalingrad, where some 165 He 111s were lost.<\/p>\n\n<p>It even landed one last big strategic blow. On the night of 21-22 June 1944, He 111s of KG 4, KG 53 and KG 55 caught American B-17s that had just landed at Poltava in Ukraine during the Operation Frantic shuttle missions, destroying 44 of them on the ground. Late in the war, modified He 111s air-launched V-1 flying bombs towards Britain from over the North Sea.<\/p>\n\n<p>Germany&rsquo;s failure to field a successor kept the Heinkel in service far longer than planned. Production for the Luftwaffe ended in September 1944. One of the strangest offshoots, the five-engined <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/heinkel-he-111z-zwilling-twin-fuselage-glider-tug\/\">He 111Z Zwilling<\/a>, joined two He 111 airframes to tow giant gliders.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;They became reliable, proven and easily maintained worker-bees for the Luftwaffe bomber units.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Ernst Heinkel<\/strong> &mdash; Aircraft designer and company founder, on the He 111&rsquo;s wartime service<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Spanish Heinkels with Merlin engines<\/h2>\n\n<p>The most unexpected chapter was written in Seville. In 1940 CASA signed a contract with Heinkel to licence-build the He 111H-16. Progress was slow, and the first Spanish-built aircraft did not fly until 23 May 1945. The early CASA 2.111s used Jumo 211 engines found in a store in France, but spares soon ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/casa-2111b-heinkel-he-111-duxford.jpg\" alt=\"The glazed nose of a Spanish-built CASA 2.111B, the licence-built Heinkel He 111, at Duxford\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Spanish-built CASA 2.111B at Duxford in 2019, showing the He 111&rsquo;s fully glazed &ldquo;greenhouse&rdquo; nose. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Casa.2111B_(Heinkel_111).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ducatipierre \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The answer was British. In 1956 Spain ordered 173 Rolls-Royce Merlin 500 engines, installed in &ldquo;power egg&rdquo; nacelles of the kind used on the Avro Lancaster. The Merlin-powered bombers became the CASA 2.111B, the reconnaissance version the 2.111D. A Luftwaffe bomber design now flew on the engine that had powered the Spitfire. Spanish 2.111s bombed positions during the Ifni War of 1957-58 and served into the early 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q2EApSduyjI\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Military Aviation History compares German-built and Spanish-built He 111s, including the Merlin-powered CASA 2.111.<\/p>\n\n<p>Their last great performance came on the big screen. The producers of the film <em>Battle of Britain<\/em> needed a Luftwaffe bomber force, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/spanish-air-and-space-force\/\">Spanish Air Force<\/a>&rsquo;s CASA 2.111s played the He 111 on screen. Their Merlin engines sounded nothing like the original Jumos, but for a generation of cinema-goers, those Spanish aircraft were the German bombers of 1940.<\/p>\n\n<p>Today only a handful of He 111s and CASA 2.111s survive in museums, among them the H-20 at the RAF Museum in London, captured in 1945 and flown to Britain by American airmen. The last airworthy example was lost in an accident in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/klvXeOUNxoE\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Kinolibrary archive footage of Spanish Air Force CASA 2.111s flying in formation, filed under <em>Battle of Britain<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The He 111 was obsolete by 1942 and still flying in 1944, a Luftwaffe bomber built in Spain with British engines into the 1950s, and a film star in 1969. Few aircraft have had three careers. The Heinkel had all of them, and that photograph over Wapping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sources: Royal Air Force Museum, Kent Battle of Britain Museum, National Museum of the United States Air Force (CASA 2.111H fact sheet), Military Aviation History, Kinolibrary<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<p class=\"mf-photo-credits\" data-no-translation style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin:6px 0 18px\">Header photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Heinkel_He_111_over_Wapping,_East_London.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German Air Force photographer \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What was the Heinkel He 111?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Heinkel He 111 was a German twin-engined medium bomber designed by Siegfried and Walter G&uuml;nter and first flown on 24 February 1935. Disguised as an airliner during secret rearmament, it became the Luftwaffe&rsquo;s most numerous bomber in the early years of the Second World War and later served as a torpedo bomber and transport.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did the He 111 fight in the Spanish Civil War?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. Four He 111Bs reached the Legion Condor in February 1937 and flew their first combat mission on 9 March 1937 against Republican airfields during the Battle of Guadalajara. In total 94 Heinkels were delivered to the Legion Condor, and the 58 survivors stayed in Spain after the war.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How did the He 111 perform in the Battle of Britain?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The He 111 struggled in the Battle of Britain because its hand-held defensive guns were too light against RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes, and its glazed nose left the crew exposed to head-on attacks. About 242 He 111s were destroyed between July and October 1940, fewer than the Ju 88, because the Heinkel could absorb heavy damage.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was the CASA 2.111?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The CASA 2.111 was a licence-built version of the Heinkel He 111H-16 made in Seville, Spain. The first flew on 23 May 1945. Early aircraft used Jumo 211 engines, but from 1956 Spain fitted Rolls-Royce Merlin 500 engines, creating the 2.111B bomber and 2.111D reconnaissance versions, which served into the early 1970s.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Which aircraft played the He 111 in the film Battle of Britain?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The German bombers in the 1969 film Battle of Britain were Spanish Air Force CASA 2.111s, the Spanish licence-built version of the Heinkel He 111. They had Rolls-Royce Merlin engines instead of the original Junkers Jumo engines, but their glazed noses and wings matched the wartime He 111H closely.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Where can you see a Heinkel He 111 today?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Surviving He 111s and CASA 2.111s are displayed in several museums, including an He 111 H-20 at the RAF Museum in London that American airmen flew to Britain in 1945. Others are in Spain, Norway, Germany, France and the United States. No He 111 has been airworthy since an accident in 2003.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What was the Heinkel He 111?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The Heinkel He 111 was a German twin-engined medium bomber designed by Siegfried and Walter G&uuml;nter and first flown on 24 February 1935. 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