Apart from the Lancasters (as pointed out by others, probably Lincolns) & Sunderlands, what are the 6 aircraft being scrapped bottom right ? I have an idea , but it doesn’t fit for the location.
Now solved, in ’46 Shorts refurbished JU 52’s for BEA, these must be left over JU 52’s & parts, see all the extra wings ?
From Britain from above https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/XAW009559
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By: avion ancien - 2nd July 2017 at 13:47
So presumably, when the photograph was taken, they were being refurbished rather than being scrapped?
By: Flat 12x2 - 2nd July 2017 at 13:08
Thanks to all, definitive answer by scotaia
from the BEA JU 52 thread.
“BEA JU 52s
I am doing a bit of research on Edinburgh Airport/RAF Turnhouse History and I was surprised to see that BEA operated JU 52s for a while after the war.”
“Warplanes of the Luftwaffe” by Aerospace publishing states that ten were reconditioned by Shorts & Harland at Belfast and taken into service in November 1946 by BEA with registrations G-AHOC to ‘OL”
“My Aircraft Registers of Great Britain (The Aviation Hobby Shops one) lists all those Ju52s as being from 100 aircraft impressed after capture in the VM and VN ranges, for possible use as transports. Most were scrapped by mid 1948 but some used by BEA (and I will not mention the pre-war ones, either!); these being registered 21/5/46, and all being listed as scrapped at Warrington 2/48.”
“I have a feeling that the post-war Ju52s were refurbished by Shorts and therefore given Shorts construction numbers… I have it as being also c/n’d 501441 (by Junkers, and therefore its Luftwaffe serial), formerly VM923.”
By: scotavia - 2nd July 2017 at 11:25
The answer ref ju 52 seems to be in this thread…http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?19835-BEA-JU-52s
By: G-ASEA - 2nd July 2017 at 11:24
Look like Lincolins to me.
Dave
By: Flat 12x2 - 2nd July 2017 at 11:16
NEEMA
Are the “Lancasters” possibly Lincolns?
Could be
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By: Tin Triangle - 2nd July 2017 at 08:32
They’re considerably smaller than the Lancasters elsewhere in the shot, Ju52s was also my guess before seeing the comments above!
By: NEEMA - 2nd July 2017 at 08:17
Are the “Lancasters” possibly Lincolns?
By: jeepman - 1st July 2017 at 23:36
Given that the RAF used about 70 impressed Ju52s in the immediate post war period, they could equally be ex-RAF airframes.
By: D1566 - 1st July 2017 at 22:50
Ex Aer Lingus machines?
By: Flat 12x2 - 1st July 2017 at 22:49
Well guys, that was my guess as well ! but in Belfast ?
By: adrian_gray - 1st July 2017 at 22:27
I’m glad it’s not just me who thought that.
Adrian
By: Mike meteor - 1st July 2017 at 22:19
Hazarding a guess…….JU52’s?
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