List of airworthy Ju 52 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

At the moment there are eight airworthy Junkers Ju 52

Junkers Ju 52

The Junkers Ju 52 was a German transport aircraft manufactured from 1932 to 1945. It saw both civilian and military service during the 1930s and 1940s. In a civilian role, it flew with over 12 air carriers including Swissair and Deutsche Luft Hansa as an airliner and freight hauler...

Zürich

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Switzerland

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Mönchengladbach

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/Germany

Germany

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or Dübendorf Air Base/Switzerland

Switzerland

|Now fitted with original BMW-engines, was on public display at Düsseldorf Airport

Düsseldorf International Airport

Düsseldorf International Airport is the largest airport in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the third largest airport in Germany, handling 18.99 million passengers in 2010....

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Germany

before as D-CIAK
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|Deutsche Lufthansa Berlin-Stiftung

Lufthansa

Deutsche Lufthansa AG is the flag carrier of Germany and the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried. The name of the company is derived from Luft , and Hansa .The airline is the world's fourth-largest airline in terms of overall passengers carried, operating...

|D-CDLH
|Ju 52/3m
|Hamburg

Hamburg Airport

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(former)
Mönchengladbach

Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach Airport

Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach Airport is an airport located northeast of Mönchengladbach and west of Düsseldorf.-History:...

(current)
|Oldest airworthy Ju, in historic Deutsche Luft Hansa

Deutsche Luft Hansa

Deutsche Luft Hansa A.G. was a German airline, serving as flag carrier of the country during the later years of the Weimar Republic and throughout the Third Reich.-1920s:Deutsche Luft Hansa was founded on 6 January 1926 in Berlin...

colors as D-AQUI (the livery this plane wore in 1936), P&W

Pratt & Whitney

Pratt & Whitney is a U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation . Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA...

-engines, now with 3-blades propellers, til 1984 known as Iron Annie N52JU
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|South African Airways Historic Flight

South African Airways

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|ZS-AFA
|CASA 352
|Swartkop/South Africa

South Africa

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|Bought from England

United Kingdom

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in 1984 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of South African Airways

South African Airways

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|Commemorative Air Force

Commemorative Air Force

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|N352JU
|CASA 352L
|Gary Regional Airport/Indiana

Indiana

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/United States

United States

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near Chicago

Chicago

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|Operated by 'The Great Lakes Wing' of Commemorative Air Force

Commemorative Air Force

, Pratt & Whitney R-1340

Pratt & Whitney R-1340

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Paris

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/France

France

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The oldest airworthy JU52

Produced in 1936, with Ser. No. 5489 and given Reg. D-AQUI Fritz Simon.
Sold to DNL Det Norske Luftfartsselskap in 1936 and registered as LN-DAH, Falken.
Confiscated by the German Army 1940. Given the old D-AQUI registration but named Kurt Wintgens.
After the war, the Allies returned it to its former owners, DNL. Registered as LN-KAF Askeladden it served on the Norwegian coast Tromsø
Tromsø
Tromsø is a city and municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.Tromsø city is the ninth largest urban area in Norway by population, and the seventh largest city in Norway by population...

- Kirkenes
Kirkenes
is a town in the municipality of Sør-Varanger in the county of Finnmark in the far northeast of Norway...

for SAS
Scandinavian Airlines System
Scandinavian Airlines or SAS, previously Scandinavian Airlines System, is the flag carrier of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and the largest airline in Scandinavia....

from February 1948 until 1956. Parked at Oslo Airport, Fornebu
Oslo Airport, Fornebu
Oslo Airport, Fornebu was the main airport serving Oslo and Eastern Norway from 1 June 1939 to 7 October 1998. It was then replaced by Oslo Airport, Gardermoen and the area has since been redeveloped. The airport was located at Fornebu in Bærum, from the city center. Fornebu had two runways, one...

for one year.
Sold to TAO (Transportes Aéreos Orientales) in Ecuador
Ecuador
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, with new registration HB-ABS Amazonas issued in July 1957. Shipped to Ecuador in wooden crates. When it arrived the wings and tail still wore the distinctive blue lettered SAS livery.
Assembled at the airport of the Ecuadorean Air Force Military Base in Salinas, Guayas in the summer of 1957 under the direction of former Lufthansa pilot Christoph Drexel.
TAO flew the plane in scheduled airline service from Quito
Quito
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...

at 10000 feet elevation to settlements in the foothills of the Andes in the Amazonian region (500 to 1000 feet altitude) of Ecuador with captain Gonzalo Ruales usually flying the left seat.

The plane routinely cleared mountain passes at 13000 feet of altitude, landing in unimproved landing strips often claimed from the shores of tributaries of the Amazon.

Taken out of service in 1963 as gathering momentum of oil exploration in the Amazonian region began to demand aircraft of increased lift capacity. Aircraft remained parked at Quito Airport for six years.
Bought by a former American Air Force pilot, Lester Weaver for $52,500. Given registry N130LV, but American authorities certified her only as "experimental".
In 1975 an American writer, Martin Caidin
Martin Caidin
Martin Caidin was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation.Caidin wrote more than 50 books, including Samurai!, Black Thursday, Thunderbolt!, Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38, Zero!, The Ragged, Rugged Warriors, A Torch to the Enemy and many other works of military history...

bought it for $150,000. Christened it Iron Annie. register N52JU. It was used at air shows, and was based at Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville, Florida
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Lufthansa acquired it in December 1984: It was flown to Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

via Greenland, Iceland and England, the only west to east Atlantic flight of an Ju 52. After a year it took to the air again. The official registration painted under the tail is D-CDLH. The old registration D-AQUI is painted on the wings. The aircraft's name is now Tempelhof.

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