{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.casa-2-111","code":"thing-q420034","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q420034/","name":"CASA 2.111","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.MAT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"The CASA 2.111 is a Spanish-built, twin-engine medium bomber aircraft type manufactured by Construcciones Aeronáuticas S.A. under licence from the German Heinkel He 111, with reconnaissance and transport variants and both German- and British-engined versions.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise the CASA 2.111 aircraft family, distinguish its configurations and assess what evidence is needed before interpreting, preserving or operating an example.","scope":{"in":["Spanish CASA production identity and its relationship to the Heinkel He 111H-16","Variant, engine-installation and conversion distinctions","Airframe layout, crew accommodation and mission equipment","Configuration-specific dimensions, loading and performance","Evidence needed to assess surviving aircraft, restoration authenticity and permitted activity"],"out":["The complete Heinkel He 111 family and German-built aircraft as independent types","Other CASA aircraft and CASA corporate history","Detailed internal models of engines, propellers and instruments","Individual aircraft ownership, flight and maintenance logs","Military campaigns and films in which aircraft appeared"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Establish CASA manufacturing provenance rather than identifying the aircraft solely from He 111 appearance or Spanish service; the family derives from licensed He 111H-16 production. [National Museum of the United States Air Force](https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/197985/casa-2111h-spanish-he-111h/)","Check the installed engine and nacelle configuration against the claimed variant; the documented CASA 2.111B museum example has two Rolls-Royce Merlin 500-29 engines. [Deutsches Museum](https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/flugwerft-schleissheim/exhibition/military-aviation/casa-2111)","Separate manufacturing identity from markings and screen identity: a documented CASA example portrayed a German aircraft in Battle of Britain. [Deutsches Museum](https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/flugwerft-schleissheim/exhibition/military-aviation/casa-2111)","Require agreement between construction records, variant documentation and physical configuration; neither a Heinkel museum label nor an engine installation alone settles the aircraft's identity."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"identity-and-lineage","name":"Identity and lineage","description":"Establish what makes an aircraft a CASA 2.111 and how this entry relates to the Heinkel parent design.","layers":[{"id":"licensed-design-boundary","name":"Licensed design boundary","description":"Separate the registered CASA family from its parent design.","findings":[{"id":"casa-production-identity","name":"CASA production identity","description":"The identification model must retain manufacturer and design ancestry as distinct facts.","questions":[{"text":"Which production records establish the boundary of CASA 2.111 relative to German-built He 111H-16 aircraft?","id":"casa-production-identity-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What manufacturer plates, construction numbers or archival records establish CASA identity?","id":"casa-production-identity-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"designation-crosswalk","name":"Designation crosswalk","description":"Reconcile factory names, service identifiers and museum labels.","findings":[{"id":"names-and-serials","name":"Names and serials","description":"Designation aliases need evidence and must remain distinct from individual aircraft identifiers.","questions":[{"text":"How do CASA variant names map to Spanish service designations in original records?","id":"names-and-serials-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Does a displayed He 111 label describe ancestry, a represented identity or the actual manufacturing type?","id":"names-and-serials-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"variants-and-propulsion","name":"Variants and propulsion","description":"Resolve engine installations and conversions before assigning technical properties.","layers":[{"id":"variant-configuration","name":"Variant configuration","description":"Define variants through documented equipment and role differences.","findings":[{"id":"variant-applicability","name":"Variant applicability","description":"Variant identity should explain which airframe, propulsion and mission differences are consequential.","questions":[{"text":"Which factory variant designations are supported, and which engine and mission configurations define each?","id":"variant-applicability-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which conversions changed the official designation, and which changed only the installed configuration?","id":"variant-applicability-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"engine-installation-interfaces","name":"Engine installation interfaces","description":"Connect engine identity to nacelles, propellers, services and cockpit indications.","findings":[{"id":"matched-propulsion-installation","name":"Matched propulsion installation","description":"An engine identification alone does not establish a complete or compatible CASA installation.","questions":[{"text":"Which engine, propeller, mount, cooling and fuel-system combinations are documented for the claimed configuration?","id":"matched-propulsion-installation-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which installation manual establishes applicable fuel, lubricant, coolant and operating limitations?","id":"matched-propulsion-installation-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What evidence is required before a replacement component can be treated as compatible?","id":"matched-propulsion-installation-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"airframe-and-mission-fit","name":"Airframe and mission fit","description":"Describe the aircraft's physical arrangement and configuration-dependent accommodation.","layers":[{"id":"structure-and-recognition","name":"Structure and recognition","description":"Document airframe features used to recognise and assess a CASA example.","findings":[{"id":"airframe-reference-configuration","name":"Airframe reference configuration","description":"Use drawings and inspection evidence to distinguish inherited geometry from later alterations.","questions":[{"text":"Which wing, glazed nose, landing-gear and tail features identify the documented CASA configuration?","id":"airframe-reference-configuration-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What dimensions and clearance envelopes apply with the aircraft assembled and in its intended ground attitude?","id":"airframe-reference-configuration-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"crew-and-role-equipment","name":"Crew and role equipment","description":"Relate crew stations and installed equipment to the documented role.","findings":[{"id":"mission-fit-boundary","name":"Mission fit boundary","description":"Record the equipment actually associated with a variant or conversion rather than assuming a universal bomber fit.","questions":[{"text":"Which crew stations, access routes and mission installations belong to each documented configuration?","id":"mission-fit-boundary-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which present fittings are original service equipment, later additions, inert replicas or absent components?","id":"mission-fit-boundary-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which role changes require a separate configuration record within this family?","id":"mission-fit-boundary-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"performance-and-controls","name":"Performance and controls","description":"Bind capability claims and control-system descriptions to an identified configuration.","layers":[{"id":"loading-and-performance","name":"Loading and performance","description":"Record quantitative limits with their reference conditions.","findings":[{"id":"conditional-capability","name":"Conditional capability","description":"Mass, range and speed require variant, loading and operating-condition qualifiers.","questions":[{"text":"What empty mass, maximum permitted mass and balance envelope does the applicable CASA manual specify?","id":"conditional-capability-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Under what mass, altitude, engine setting and fuel assumptions were quoted speed and range figures obtained?","id":"conditional-capability-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"controls-and-system-states","name":"Controls and system states","description":"Identify the control and indication arrangements applicable to the installed systems.","findings":[{"id":"configuration-specific-controls","name":"Configuration-specific controls","description":"Control labels, indications and protective arrangements need verification against the aircraft's configuration.","questions":[{"text":"How do engine, propeller, cooling, landing-gear and flap controls differ between documented configurations?","id":"configuration-specific-controls-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which warnings, locks or interlocks are documented, and which remain functional on the assessed example?","id":"configuration-specific-controls-q02","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which unresolved control or indication discrepancies prevent the proposed ground or flight activity?","id":"configuration-specific-controls-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"survival-restoration-and-use","name":"Survival, restoration and use","description":"Connect historical authenticity, physical condition and evidence for permitted activity.","layers":[{"id":"restoration-authenticity","name":"Restoration authenticity","description":"Separate surviving CASA fabric from repairs, substitutions and portrayals.","findings":[{"id":"represented-and-material-identity","name":"Represented and material identity","description":"A restoration assessment needs both the aircraft's documented history and the configuration it is intended to represent.","questions":[{"text":"Which dated CASA service configuration or later film appearance is the restoration intended to represent?","id":"represented-and-material-identity-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What records distinguish original structure and equipment from donor parts, replicas and cosmetic modifications?","id":"represented-and-material-identity-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"condition-and-activity-release","name":"Condition and activity release","description":"Determine what inspection and approval evidence is needed for the intended use.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-for-permitted-use","name":"Evidence for permitted use","description":"Assess structural preservation and installed-system condition separately from documented authorisation for activity.","questions":[{"text":"Which CASA-specific maintenance documents identify inspection needs for structure, glazing, landing gear and the installed propulsion system?","id":"evidence-for-permitted-use-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What unresolved deterioration, missing equipment or undocumented repairs restrict movement, access or operation?","id":"evidence-for-permitted-use-q02","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which competent authority and applicable approval basis govern the proposed activity for this example?","id":"evidence-for-permitted-use-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of CASA 2.111 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-kinds","name":"Kinds and varieties","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of CASA 2.111 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-identifiers","name":"Identifiers and schemes","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of CASA 2.111 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-identifiers-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of CASA 2.111 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-measurements","name":"Typical measurements","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of CASA 2.111 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-measurements-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of CASA 2.111 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of CASA 2.111 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of CASA 2.111 this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe the CASA 2.111, its development and service history from reliable sources.","Support museum catalogues and preservation records of surviving parts or airframes."],"mustNot":["Fly, start or move a preserved aircraft without the owner's authority.","Glorify bombing of civilians or wartime atrocities connected with the type.","Misrepresent an airframe's history, originality or provenance in a sale or exhibit.","Share controlled military technical data from surviving documentation."],"requiresHuman":["Restoration, loan or sale of a historic airframe or parts."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["The licence-built bomber is part of a history of war with real victims; it should be described accurately.","Surviving examples and parts are heritage that cannot be replaced."],"affectedParties":["Victims of wartime bombing and their descendants","Museums and historians","Visitors"]},"owners":{"steward":"The museum, collector or state that holds any surviving example; national archives hold its records.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Museum collection catalogues","National military archives"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q10796151","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.casa-2-111","Wikidata: Q420034 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420034)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["Manufacturing lineage: CASA production record; relationship to Heinkel He 111H-16; supporting document","Variant and conversion identity: Documented CASA designation, service designation and dated conversions; unresolved permitted","Installed propulsion configuration: Engine model and propeller assembly for each side, installation standard and evidence date","Airframe dimensions: Wingspan, length and height in m, with variant and measurement configuration","Mass and balance envelope: Mass in kg; centre of gravity in the reference system of the applicable manual","Performance reference conditions: Speed in km/h with airspeed basis; altitude in m; range in km; mass and engine settings","Mission fit: Documented role and installed equipment; original, converted, reconstructed or unknown","Preservation and operating status: Static exhibit, stored, under restoration, ground-operation authorised, flight authorised or unknown; dated evidence required"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["A twin-engine bomber with a fully glazed rounded nose.","Spanish Air Force markings; some versions with British engines."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Identify a candidate aircraft using construction evidence and physical configuration.","Compare CASA variants without importing specifications from unrelated He 111 versions.","Select manuals and parts references applicable to a documented engine and airframe combination.","Assess whether a restoration represents a specified CASA service configuration or a later portrayal.","Determine the evidence and qualified review required for display, movement, engine running or flight.","Flag contradictory designations, unsupported performance figures and unresolved conversion histories."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Surviving airframes have been used in films and are often mistaken for German-built aircraft.","Old airframes can contain hazardous materials such as asbestos or radioactive paint."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["Regulation (EU) 2018/1139, issued by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, provides Annex I criteria relevant to determining whether a historic example falls outside its scope and remains subject to national aviation rules."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["This aircraft family was used by the Spanish military for medium bombing and, in adapted variants, reconnaissance and transport.","Surviving examples and records are encountered in aviation museums, restoration projects and historical research.","Configuration evidence is used to distinguish engine installations, mission variants and later alterations."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q420034: CASA 2.111","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420034","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: CASA 2.111","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASA_2.111","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["What primary documentation resolves the complete variant list, Spanish service-designation mappings and engine-conversion history?","Which original flight, maintenance and parts manuals remain accessible, and what serial or configuration ranges do they cover?","Which published dimensions, masses, engine ratings and performance figures describe specific variants rather than being copied across the family?","What documented deterioration patterns and component-support limitations apply specifically to surviving CASA 2.111 airframes?","Does an existing Vercy world model already own this aircraft concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it rather than receive a separate publication?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q420034/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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