Ex Spanish Air Force T2B-176.

Flying Legends

I found this photo with the photos in the batch with PH-UBA, PH-UBB and PH-UBC. The aircraft is likely one of the 3, but I'm unable to read the name or any other inscriptions on the fuselage underneath the cockpit. If I'm correct that the aircraft name is the 2 words in the location mentioned previously, then it can only be the PH-UBB, as that's the only one out of the 3 aircraft with a 2-word name. Location unknown to me as well. If you have more information, I'd love to hear!

The entire Junkers fleet of the Rijksluchtvaartschool in one photo. PH-UBA was built in 1936 and served the Luftwaffe in WWII. On Oct 16, 1945 it was serialled VM985 of the RAF Enemy Aircraft Storage & Servicing Unit at Fuhlsbuttel, Germany. Early Apr 1946 it was transferred to the RAF 131 (P) squadron at Ahlhorn, Germany and days later prepared for delivery to the Netherlands. Registered PH-UBA on Jun 21, 1946. Cancelled on Oct 1, 1949 and the aircraft was sold two monts later. In 1950 it was sold to Avio-Diepen as a testbed for BMW aircraft engines and later scrapped. The other two aircraft are PH-UBB and PH-UBC.

Built in 1943 and served the Luftwaffe in WWII. Ferried from Norway to Fuhlsbuttel and coded VN743 of the R.A.F. Enemy Aircraft Storage & Servicing Unit at Fuhlsbuttel, Germany. To the RAF 8402 ADW (Air Disarmament Wing) on March 20, 1946 and prepared for delivery to the Netherlands a day later. Registered to the Rijksluchtvaartschool on October 14, 1946. In December 1949 the aircraft was sold for scrapping,.

Built in 1943 and served the Luftwaffe in WWII as 3K-LN. Coded VM927 of the RAF Enemy Aircraft Storage & Servicing Unit at Fuhlsbuttel, Germany in October 1945. 3 weeks later, the aircraft was ferried from Norway to Fuhlsbuttel. Transferred to the RAF 131(P) Sqn at Ahlhorn (Germany) on March 2, 1946. Prepared for delivery to the Netherlands 2 days later. On July 13, 1946 it was registered to the Rijksluchtvaartschool as PH-UBB. The registration was cancelled on September 30, 1949 and the aircraft was sold for scrapping in December 1949.

One CASA 352, a licence built Ju-52, frames another, the front aircraft is G-BECL / N9-AA.

ČSA operated a couple of Ju 52s after the war. The c/n of this one is given as 36. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Delivered to the Swiss Air Force in 1939 as A-701, and still flying almost 80 years later! It's been advertising the IWC Schaffhausen watch makers since 2006, and was recently painted in their new colour scheme.

This aircraft is a Junkers-built fuselage (c/n 24?), mated with CASA-built wings. The finished aircraft received new CASA c/n 103. It served with the Spanish AF as T.2B-212 until struck off charge on 28 Nov 1975 and sold as G-BECL the following year. Its current owners, Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis, acquired this venerable aircraft in 1990, and from 1991 until 2003 it was painstakingly restored and rebuilt. Its first post-restoration flight was on 24 Apr 2003, and AJBS still operated it at airshows by 2019!

Spanish-built version of the Junkers Ju52/3m displayed at the USAAF Museum in its original Spanish Air Force markings.

On display at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum. The Ju-52 was used all over Europe and became the flagship for Deutsche Lufthansa, which bought them by the dozen. It could carry 17 passengers or three tons of freight. Most of Lufthansa's fleet was requisitioned during World War II. Despite the desperate situation, Lufthansa continued flying till the end of the war, operating Ju-52/3m D-AFFF into Flensburg on 5 May 1945.

Became G-BFHG and later moved to Kermit Weeks in Florida in Sep 1994.

Became N352JU in 1979.

On display at Sinsheim since 1986. Painted as Luftwaffe RJ+NP.

Ex T.2B-148. To C-GARM in 1982 and rebuilt as Ju52/1m by Bristol Aerospace and exhibited at Western Canadian Aviation Museum as "CF-ARM".

This aircraft is a Junkers-built fuselage (c/n 24?), mated with CASA-built wings. The finished aircraft received new CASA c/n 103. It served with the Spanish AF as T.2B-212 until struck off charge on 28 Nov 1975 and sold as G-BECL the following year. Its current owners, Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis, acquired this venerable aircraft in 1990, and from 1991 until 2003 it was painstakingly restored and rebuilt. Its first post-restoration flight was on 24 Apr 2003, and AJBS still operated it at airshows by 2019!