Aircraft Photo of VH-BUU | Junkers Ju 52/3m | Gibbes Sepik Airways

Aircraft
Registration / Serial:	VH-BUU
Aircraft Original Type:	Junkers Ju 52
Aircraft Generic Type:	Junkers Ju 52
Aircraft Version:	Junkers Ju 52/3m
C/n (msn):	7256
Operator Titles:	Gibbes Sepik Airways

Location
City / Airport:	Brisbane - InternationalMap
Region / Country:	Queensland, Australia
Airport Codes:	ICAO: YBBN IATA: BNE Local: - Other: -

Photo Date:	September 1956
Photo from:	Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Photo ID:	128279

Photo Comment
Damaged in a ground-loop at Baiyer River airstrip, Papua New Guinea, on October 17, 1959. Stripped of useful parts and abandoned. VH-BUU was a pre-war civil aircraft built for Lufthansa but delivered to Aero O/Y in Finland as OH-LAM. Sold in Sweden as SE-BUE in 1951 and to Gibbes in 1955. The BMW radials were replaced by Pratt and Whitney Wasps by Marshall Airways at Bankstown, Sydney, in 1956. This photo was added on 1 March 2019, and has since been viewed 1179 times.

Photo Comment

Damaged in a ground-loop at Baiyer River airstrip, Papua New Guinea, on October 17, 1959. Stripped of useful parts and abandoned. VH-BUU was a pre-war civil aircraft built for Lufthansa but delivered to Aero O/Y in Finland as OH-LAM. Sold in Sweden as SE-BUE in 1951 and to Gibbes in 1955. The BMW radials were replaced by Pratt and Whitney Wasps by Marshall Airways at Bankstown, Sydney, in 1956.

This photo was added on 1 March 2019, and has since been viewed 1179 times.

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