List of Junkers Ju 52 operators

The List of Junkers Ju 52 operators lists by country the civil airlines and military air forces and units that have operated the aircraft.

Preserved Ju 52 at Duxford, 2001, showing corrugated skin

Civil operators

The civil operators was operated airlines

 Argentina

 Belgium

 Bolivia

 Brazil

 Canada

 China

 Czechoslovakia

 Denmark

 Estonia

 Finland

 France

  • Aero Cargo
  • Air France
  • Air Ocean
  • CTA Languedoc Roussillon
  • Société Auxiliare de Navigation Aérienne
  • Socotra

 Nazi Germany

 Germany

Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52/3m D-CDLH, till 1984, known as "Iron Annie N52JU," painted as D-AQUI in historic 1936 Deutsche Luft Hansa colors. D-CDLH has P&W engines, now with 3-bladed propellers.

 Greece

  • Elliniki Eteria Enaerion Sinkinonion

EEES operated three Junkers Ju 52/3m. The first arrived on June 28, 1938 with W.Nr.5984 and registration SX-ACF. The other two were SX-ACH (W.Nr.6004) and SX-ACI (W.Nr.6025). All three were used by the Royal Hellenic Air Force during the 1940-41 war against Italy and Germany. All were captured by the Wehrmacht and transferred to the Luftwaffe.[4]

 Hungary

 Italy

Mozambique

 New Guinea

  • Gibbes Sepik Airways
  • Mandated Airlines

Between 1955 and 1959 Gibbes Sepik Airways operated three Ju 52/3ms purchased in Sweden. Mandated Airlines bought Gibbes Sepik Airways in 1959 and continued to operate the two surviving aircraft until the following year.[7][8]

 Norway

 Poland

 Portugal

 Romania

 South Africa

Three Junkers Ju 52 aircraft built for the South African Airways.

http://www.saamuseum.co.za/our-aircraft/66-junkers-ju-52-casa-352l.html

 Soviet Union

 Spanish State

 Sweden

  Switzerland

CASA 352 (license-built Junkers Ju 52/3m) in Ju-Air markings at Zürich airport
Junkers Ju 52 (JU-AIR airline)
  • Ju-Air (still used, used only 2 Ju 52)

 Turkey

 United Kingdom

 Uruguay

 Yugoslavia

Military operators

 Argentina

 Austria

 Belgium

 Belgian Congo

 Bolivia

Bulgaria

 Colombia

 Independent State of Croatia

 Czechoslovakia

 Ecuador

 France

When France was liberated some Ju 52 were captured and used. The Ju 52 had been manufactured in France during the war by the Junkers-controlled Amiot company, and production continued after 1945 as the Amiot AAC 1 Toucan (more than 500 were produced). French built Ju 52s were widely used, not only in France but also in colonial wars in Algeria, Vietnam and Thailand.

 Germany

 Greece

 Hungary

 Italy

 Norway

 Peru

 Portugal

 Romania

 South Africa

Slovakia

 Soviet Union

 Spanish State

 Sweden

  Switzerland

 Syria

 United States

A German Junkers Ju 52/3m, which was confiscated by Peru and transferred to the United States Army Air Forces as a war prize, at Howard Field, Panama, in late 1942.

USAAF operated one aircraft known as Junkers C-79.

 Yugoslavia

See also

References

  1. Stroud 1966, p. 634.
  2. Stroud 1966, p. 635.
  3. Stroud 1966, p. 636.
  4. Elliniki Etaireia Enaerion Synkoinonion AE Archived 2007-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Stroud 1966, p. 641.
  6. Stroud 1966, p. 642.
  7. Burns Flight 23 August 1957, p. 282.
  8. Flight 13 April 1961, p. 495.
  9. Mark Axworthy, London: Arms and Armour, 1995, Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945, p. 281
  10. Stroud 1966, p. 643.
  11. Stroud 1966, p. 644.
  12. Bridgman 1951, p. 5a.
  13. Bridgman 1951, p. 6a.
  14. Bridgman 1951, p. 8a.
  15. Bridgman 1951, p. 17a.
  16. Bridgman 1951, p. 19a.
  17. Bridgman 1951, p. 22a.
  • Bridgman, Leonard (1951). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1951–52. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd.
  • Burns, W. G. (23 August 1957). "Australia's Air Transport". Flight. Vol. 72 no. 2535. pp. 281–282. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  • Stroud, John (1966). European Transport Aircraft since 1910. Putnam.
  • "World Airline Directory". Flight. 13 April 1961. pp. 477–513. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
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