Brand new Ju-52 on the delivery date. Crashed 18. December 1942 at Vienna, Austria

Brand new Ju-52 on the delivery date. Crashed 18. December 1942 at Vienna, Austria

Brand new Ju-52 on the delivery date. Crashed 18. December 1942 at Vienna, Austria

Apparently photographed in southern Argentina. Delivered from Germany in 1937. R-346 Tierra del Fuego to LV-CAB in 1938, to LV-AAI in 1942. To Argentinian ministry of Agriculture in 1950 as LV-ZIF. Crashed near Rauch, Buenos Aires on a spraying flight in 1956. Photo by: John Phillips / Life

Eurasia Aviation was a Sino-German airline. The airline had its own registration system using Roman numbers and sometimes expressed as EU XVIII. This aircraft suffered an engine failure and crashed at Kunming on 1 August 1937. Photo from: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Photo: SA-kuva (Finnish Armed Forces photograph, Wartime Photograph Archive). Photographer T. Räisänen.

Photo: SA-kuva (Finnish Armed Forces photograph, Wartime Photograph Archive). Photographer T. Räisänen.

The man blocking the registration might be carrying the squadron pet on his shoulder but it is probably D-AKLQ, not AKLO. Both D-AKLQ and D-VDZA (c/n 5637 or 5837) served as ambulance aircraft with Sanitätsflugbereitschaft 7 in Greece during the war, though the photo may have been taken earlier. D-AKLO is also said to have existed but no details are given. D-AKLQ was rebuilt after a crash in 1935 and its c/n is also reported as 5171. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

First flown on 18 July 1936, this was the sole Ju 52 owned by DDL before WWII. The forward fuselage was painted red. After the outbreak of the war, 'Denmark' was painted on the roof, with Danish flags on wings and tail surfaces. DDL was allowed to carry on flying under the German occupation of Denmark. Selandia crashed near Vienna - Aspern on 18 December 1942.

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.

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

Dutch war booty, one of four captured Ju 52s allocated to the Dutch by the British. Three were put to use as trainers. This veteran 1936 Tante Ju was supposedly named Opa (grandpa). RAF serial VM985. Wrong c/n 5717 listed by Dutch CAA. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

VH-GSW was among a shipment of scrap metal from New Guinea to Adelaide to be melted down. Japanese WW2 aircraft were among the load.

Of Gibbes' three Ju52/3ms, VH-BUW was the only one with military service. It had been the personal aircraft of Field Marshall Albert Kesselring. It was flown to Sweden in April 1945 without the general. BUW arrived in Papua New Guinea on February 9, 1952. Crashed at Wau on March 21. With great difficulty it was transported by road back to Goroka and rebuilt. The work was completed in January 1959 with the new registration VH-GSW. Retired in 1960 and scrapped.

Written off after ground looping at Baiyer River, Papua New Guinea on October 17, 1959

Ex Portuguese AF 6309.

Badly damaged in a ground-loop at Baiyer River on October 17, 1959

VH-BUU after its original BMW radials were replaced by Pratt and Whitney engines by Marshall Airways in Sydney..