This East German Crate was registered to Deutsche Lufthansa in December 1957 and subsequently transferred to Interflug in the early 1960s but damaged beyond repair after an emergency landing at Leipzig in November 1967. It was then preserved at Halle from 1968 to 1991 and then at Pulspforde, arriving at Technikmuseum 'Hugo Junkers' for refurbishment and display in September 1999.

K25 slide scan. Built 1957 at Dresden as DM-SAF for Deutsche Lufthansa der DDR. Transferred to Interflug 1963. Damaged beyond repair 17 November 1967 Leipzig-Mockau during a hard landing on a training flight. Put on display at the City of Halle the following year. Dismantled after reunification and passed through the hands of several owners until being rescued by the Junkers Museum at Dessau where a full restoration took place.

Both Germanies claimed the Lufthansa name and crane until 1963, when the GDR airline was renamed Interflug. This Il-14 was built by VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden in 1957. She was written off after a hard landing in Leipzig - Mockau (not in Moscow) on 17 November 1967.

It was delightful to have the opportunity to shoot this superbly preserved VEB-built Il-14 in such nice conditions, well worth the 130km drive from Berlin. Once displayed in Interflug colours at the Halle ice stadium after being written off in a hard landing, it became derelict and was on the verge of being scrapped before being rescued by the Technik-Museum Hugo Junkers and restored in the colours of East Germany's Deutsche Lufthansa, the forerunner of Interflug

Preserved in the "Kulturpark" near the Eissporthalle in Halle. It was put there after sustaining damage in an emergency landing at Leipzig in 1967. Shortly after this photo was made, this VEB-built Ilyushin was dismantled and transported to Pulspforde, followed by a move to the Hugo Junkers Museum in Dessau in 1999.