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. Does anyone know anything about them or guide me in the right direction to find out a bit more? I was wondering if they were captured Luftwaffe models.
By: Flood - 12th January 2004 at 08:11
Don’t know – but since they were captured at the end of the war the chances are that they won’t have had too much of a combat career.
I will try and post the werk nummeren (!) later.
Flood.
By: Old Git - 12th January 2004 at 07:04
Thnaks all for your help. The info I was given on another forum was that BEA operated LSI-ABZ-EDI-Northolt (I am not too well up on these codes but I know ABZ and EDI, I assume LSI is Lerwick?) route from 19.5.47 until 31.8.47 when the JU52s were withdrawn (From the route or from service I don’t know). I was just wondering if there had been a way from their UK regs I could trace them back to their wartime service years. I might try Shorts but I will be stymied if I can’t track what happened to them in the war years even if I could get their Luftwaffe IDs. Does anyone know if the Luftwaffe keep records in the same way the RAF does?
Thanks again
O.G.
By: Flood - 11th January 2004 at 13:42
Originally posted by Merlin3945
The first british serial number mentioned gives the previous serial as SH16C on G-INFO. that one being AHOC.
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.
Flood.
By: Merlin3945 - 11th January 2004 at 10:54
Hi Guys now youve got me interested in this thread. An airfield just up the road from me flew JU52’s. Somewhat significant that the Lufthansa JU52 visited Edinburgh airport last year then.
The first british serial number mentioned gives the previous serial as SH16C on G-INFO. that one being AHOC.
All the details you can get now with it being a deregistered aircraft and the record being so old.
By: Flood - 11th January 2004 at 01:48
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. Don’t know how much use they had – or even why when there were vast numbers of Dakotas available, doing next to nothing!
If anyone cares I will list the given ID link-ups.
Flood.
By: Ant.H - 10th January 2004 at 17:09
“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.Sadly it doesn’t say where these machines came from.
By: Spey111 - 10th January 2004 at 13:04
I don’t know where the originals came from but there is one painted up as ‘G-AFAP’ in the RAF Museum at Cosford. That particular example is one of the ex Spanish Air Force Casa 352L’s that was ex T2B-272 that was I believe around for some time in the ighties before going to Cosford.
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