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.
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Civil operators[edit]
The civil operators was operated airlines
Argentina[edit]
Austria[edit]
Belgium[edit]
Bolivia[edit]
Brazil[edit]
Canada[edit]
China[edit]
Czechoslovakia[edit]
- ČSA Československé aerolinie[8]
- Government of Czechoslovakia (Postwar)
Denmark[edit]
Estonia[edit]
Finland[edit]
France[edit]
- Aero Cargo[9]
- Aigle Azur[9]
- Air France[9]
- Air Nolis[10]
- Air Ocean[9]
- Avions Bleus[10]
- CTA Languedoc Roussillon[11]
- LASO France[10]
- Société Auxiliare de Navigation Aérienne
- SOCOTRA[12]
- Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux[13]
Nazi Germany[edit]
Germany[edit]
- Deutsche Luft Hansa
- Lufthansa (one still in used for special flights)
Greece[edit]
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.[14]
Hungary[edit]
Italy[edit]
Mozambique[edit]
New Guinea[edit]
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.[17][18]
Norway[edit]
Poland[edit]
- LOT Polish Airlines (1 in 1936–1939)[16]
Portugal[edit]
Romania[edit]
South Africa[edit]
Soviet Union[edit]
Spanish State[edit]
Sweden[edit]
Switzerland[edit]
- Ju-Air (still used, used only 2 Ju 52)
Turkey[edit]
United Kingdom[edit]
- British Airways Limited[20]
- British European Airways[20]
- British Overseas Airways Corporation
- Railway Air Services[20]
Uruguay[edit]
- Compañía Aeronáutica Uruguaya S.A. (CAUSA)[21]
Yugoslavia[edit]
Military operators[edit]
Argentina[edit]
Austria[edit]
Belgium[edit]
Belgian Congo[edit]
Bolivia[edit]
Bulgaria[edit]
Colombia[edit]
Croatia[edit]
Czechoslovakia[edit]
- Czechoslovakian Air Force (postwar)[27]
Ecuador[edit]
France[edit]
- French Air Force (postwar)[28]
- French Navy (postwar)[29]
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.
Nazi Germany[edit]
Greece[edit]
Hungary[edit]
Italy[edit]
Norway[edit]
- Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service: One aircraft rented from DNL from January 1940 to 9 April 1940.
- Norwegian Air Force (captured) (postwar)
Peru[edit]
Portugal[edit]
Kingdom of Romania[edit]
South Africa[edit]
Slovakia[edit]
Soviet Union[edit]
- Soviet Air Force (postwar)
Spanish State[edit]
Sweden[edit]
Switzerland[edit]
Syria[edit]
- Syrian Air Force (postwar)
United States[edit]
USAAF operated one aircraft known as Junkers C-79.[34]
Yugoslavia[edit]
- SFR Yugoslav Air Force[35]
- 1st Transport Aviation Regiment (1944-1948)
- 119th Transport Aviation Regiment (1948-1966)
- 81st Support Aviation Regiment (1961-1964)
Notes[edit]
- ^ Stroud 1966, p. 634
- ^ Tincopa & Rivas 2016, pp. 23–24
- ^ Tincopa & Rivas 2016, pp. 26–27
- ^ a b Stroud 1966, p. 328.
- ^ a b c d e Stroud 1966, p. 635
- ^ Tincopa & Rivas 2016, pp. 90–91
- ^ Tincopa & Rivas 2016, pp. 88–89
- ^ a b c d e Stroud 1966, p. 636
- ^ a b c d Stroud 1966, p. 330
- ^ a b c Chillon, Dubois & Wegg 1980, p. 81
- ^ Chillon, Dubois & Wegg 1980, p. 82
- ^ a b Chillon, Dubois & Wegg 1980, p. 80
- ^ Delmas Le Fana de l'Aviation June 1985, p. 14
- ^ Elliniki Etaireia Enaerion Synkoinonion AE Archived 2007-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Stroud 1966, p. 641
- ^ a b c d e f Stroud 1966, p. 642
- ^ Burns Flight 23 August 1957, p. 282
- ^ Flight 13 April 1961, p. 495
- ^ Axworthy 1995, p. 281
- ^ a b c d e Stroud 1966, p. 643
- ^ Stroud 1966, p. 644
- ^ Chillon, Dubois & Wegg 1980, pp. 76, 78
- ^ Tincopa & Rivas 2016, pp. 21–26
- ^ a b c Green 1972, p. 409
- ^ Bridgman 1951, p. 5a
- ^ Hagedorn 2006, p. 95
- ^ Bridgman 1951, p. 6a
- ^ Bridgman 1951, p. 8a
- ^ Chillon, Dubois & Wegg 1980, p. 76
- ^ Green 1972, p. 406
- ^ a b Green 1972, p. 413
- ^ Bridgman 1951, p. 17a
- ^ Bridgman 1951, p. 19a
- ^ Swanborough & Bowers 1963, p. 571
- ^ Bridgman 1951, p. 22a
References[edit]
- Axworthy, Mark (1995). Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 1-85409-267-7.
- 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.
- Chillon, J.; Dubois, J-P; Wegg, J. (1980). French Post-War Transport Aircraft. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. ISBN 0-85130-078-2.
- Delmas, Jean (June 1985). "1935–1985, de l'Aéromaritime à l'UTA (fin)". Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French). No. 187. pp. 12–19.
- Green, William (1972). Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-05782-2.
- Hagedorn, Dan (2006). Latin American Air Wars and Aircraft 1912–1969. Crowborough: Hikoki Publications. ISBN 1-902-109-44-9.
- Stroud, John (1966). European Transport Aircraft since 1910. Putnam.
- Swanborough, F. G.; Bowers, Peter M. (1963). United States Military Aircraft since 1909. London: Putnam.
- Tincopa, Amaru; Rivas, Santiago (2016). Axis Aircraft in Latin America. Manchester, UK: Crécy Publishing. ISBN 978-1-90210-949-7.
- "World Airline Directory". Flight. 13 April 1961. pp. 477–513. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
External links[edit]
Media related to Junkers Ju 52 at Wikimedia Commons- South African Airways Museum Society
