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    Airframe Family: Junkers Ju-52
    Latest Model:Ju-52/3mg8e Tante Ju
    Construction Number:5489
    Last Civil Registration:D-CDLH
    Latest Owner or Location:Quax -Verein zur Foerderung von historischem Fluggeraet e.V., Paderborn Lippstadt Airport, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia

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    Dates

    Event

    1936

    Constructed as a Ju-52/3mg3e.

    10 April 1936

    To Lufthansa with new c/r D-AQUI.
    Operated with markings: Fritz Simon
    Operated on floats.

    1 July 1936

    To DNL-Norwegian Air Lines, Oslo with new c/r LN-DAH.
    Operated with markings: Falken

    1938


    Photographer: Deutsche Lufthansa

    April 1940

    Involved in an incident.
    Seized by German Army in Norway.

    From May 1940 to 1945

    To Lufthansa with new c/r D-AQUI.
    Operated with markings: Kurt Wintgens

    18 May 1946

    To DNL-Norwegian Airlines, Oslo with new c/r LN-KAF.
    Operated with markings: Askeladden

    1947

    Converted to a Ju-52/3mg8e.
    New construction number, Nr130714, assigned to the airframe.
    Floatplane rebuilt using fuselage ex Nr130714.

    From 1947 to 1956

    To Scandanavian Airline System keeping c/r LN-KAF.
    Operated as a Floatplane.

    1950


    Photographer: Deutsche Lufthansa
    Notes: 1950 photo as a float[lane operating for SAS

    October 1956

    Withdrawn from use.
    Aircraft was sunk in Oslo Harbour.

    July 1957

    Repair completed.

    July 1957

    Transported by ship.
    Shipped from Oslo - bound for Ecuador.

    From July 1957 to 1963

    To Transportes Aereos Orientales SA, Quito with new c/r HC-ABS.
    Operated with markings: Amazonas

    From 1963 to 1970

    Withdrawn from use.
    In open storage at Quito between 1963-1970.

    May 1969

    To Lester F. Weaver, Polo, IL with new c/r N130LW.
    Restored at Quito and flown to Dixon, Illinois - arriving 22 November 1970.

    Circa 1971


    Photographer: robert brown
    Notes: Photographed at Dixon, Illinois

    From 1974 to 1984

    To Martin Cadin Productions with new c/r N52JU.
    Operated with markings: Iron Annie
    Delivered to Tico, Florida on 5 March 1975.

    28 January 1978


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Lakeland, FL.

    28 January 1978


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Lakeland, FL.

    17 July 1980

    Damaged.
    At Gainesville, Florida - subsequently repaired.

    By September 1980


    Photographer: Unknown

    By September 1980


    Photographer: Unknown

    By September 1980


    Photographer: Unknown

    Circa 4 August 1981

    Certificate of airworthiness for N52JU (JU-52, 130714) issued.

    4 August 1981

    To Rosen Paul, Miami, FL keeping c/r N52JU.

    21 October 1982


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1982 photo taken at Opa Locka, Florida of Iron Annie - a Junkers Ju-52-3M which became -D-CDLH with Lufthansa.

    1 October 1984


    Photographer: Mike Powney
    Notes: 1984 photo at Opa Locka, Florida

    December 1984

    To Lufthansa Traditionsflug, Hamburg with new c/r D-CDLH.

    8 February 1985

    Civil registration, N52JU, cancelled.

    1 April 1986

    Restoration completed.
    Markings Applied: D-AQUI
    And first post restoration flight at Hamburg.

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: Unknown

    Circa 1990


    Photographer: Unknown

    To Darmstadt AAF, Darmstadt, Hesse.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: D-AQUA

    To Hanger 10, Heringsdorf, Zirchow-Garz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
    View the Location Dossier

    26 July 2008


    Photographer: Klaus Brandmaier

    1 June 2013


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At its homebase Frankfurt International, Germany, with 3-bladed engines and without tail logo

    6 September 2013


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Hahnweide Germany

    April 2019

    Withdrawn from use.
    The Deutsche Lufthansa Berlin-Stiftung (DLBS) has decommissioned the aircraft. The search for a place in an aviation museum in Germany has begun.

    27 September 2020

    Loaned to Quax-Verein zur Foerderung von historischem Fluggeraet E. V., Paderborn Lippstadt Airport, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia.
    View the Location Dossier

    Placed on display.
    Dismantled.


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    Thorsten Kluge
    Thorsten Ruchel

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