Designed to a Royal Netherlands Navy requirement for a replacement of the Dornier Wals being used in the Dutch East Indies, the Dornier Do 24K first flew on 3 July 1937. The Netherlands planned to operate up to 90 Do 24K flying boats, however when Germany invaded in 1940, only 37 had been delivered to the East Indies.
Post-invasion the Dutch production line was resumed and an additional 159 Do 24s were built in addition to 16 incomplete airframes at the factory. A second production line was started at the CAMS factory at Sartrouville, France, during the German occupation. This line was operated by SNCAN and produced 48 Do 24s during the war and another 40 after the liberation of France, which served with the French Navy until 1952.
The two prototypes were used by the Luftwaffe during the invasion of Norway to transport troops to Narvik.
The aircraft captured and produced in the Netherlands were pressed into service with Seenotstaffeln (air-sea rescue) and deployed in the Arctic, Baltic, North Sea, Bay of Biscay, Mediterranean, and Black Sea. They were also used as transports, notably for keeping contact with the troops left behind on the Aegean Islands and Crete, and for supporting the Kuban bridgehead in early 1943.
Dornier Do 24 N-1 KD+GJDornier Do 24 N-1 KD+GJDornier Do 24 N-1 KD+GJDornier Do 24 N-1 D-AEAV of Seenotdienst
Dornier Do 24T
A new Dornier Do 24T-3 is run up outside the CAMS factory in Sartrouville, near Paris, on the SeineDornier Do 24T-2 (KOJT) from Seenotstaffel 7 (SBK XI) in the Aegean Sea in 1942Dornier Do 24T-2Dornier Do 24T-2 CM+IH at KirkenesDornier Do 24T-1 5W+GU of Seenotstaffel 50Dornier Do 24T-1 behind an Italian CANT Z.506Dornier Do 24T of Seenotstaffel 3 arriving at Schellingwoude, the flying boat base of Amsterdam in The Netherlands.Dornier Do 24TDornier Do 24T-1Dornier Do 24T-2 (CM+IA) flying over Lake Constance, where Seenotstaffel 9 held a training camp during the severe winters of 1941 and 1942Dornier Do 24T-2 CM+IM with a broken tailAn abandoned Dornier Do 24T-2 (CH+EV) at Mersa Matruh harbor, EgyptSunken shipping at Mersa Matruh, Egypt, in November 1941. A wrecked Dornier Do 24T-2 flying boat (CH+EV) is on the right.
Dornier Do 24MS
Dornier Do 24T-3 converted to a minesweeper
Miscellaneous Dornier Do 24 Photos
Dornier Do 24 EnginesDornier Do24Dornier Do24Dornier Do24Dornier Do24 V1Dornier Do24 with Blohm & Voss BV 138 flying boatsDornier Do 24s of 9. Staffel and an Arado Ar 196 in front of their hangar at Kiel-HoltenauDornier Do 24 at Schleswig in North Germany after the war had endedDornier Do 24 of SNG 81 in the special markings applied for the Luftwaffe’s final operation. Schleswig in late 1945
