Talk:List of surviving Junkers Ju 52s

D-AQUI not oldest?!
Don't want to bother you, but perhaps take a look at this: http://www.junkers.de/flugzeuge/fliegende_exemplare/ju52dlh.html

This web site has seemingly been created by the grandson of Hugo Junkers. It offers even more historic details than the HP of D-AQUI's actual owner http://www.dlbs.de/de/Die-Flotte/Junkers-JU-52/index.php. BTW: the latter web site talks very few about the time before 1955. I think they tell the story of the eponymous Ser. No. 5489 (as also described in this article). But there seems to be enough reason for confusion or 'interpretation'. I'll try to translate the most important facts of the junkers web site into English, hoping not to cause even more missunderstandings (my native language is German...)

The 'hardware' we know now as historic D-AQUI / official D-CDLH is mostly made of structural parts (fuselage, wings etc.) taken from at least three different airplanes during a 'very complete overhaul' in Norway, started in 1947. The original D-AQUI (later LN-DAH, D-AQUI again and LN-KAF after WWII, produced in 1935 or 1936) also 'died' on this occasion and some of its parts were used to complete the new old Ju52.

This newborn 'bastard' needed a registration and for some reason (unknown to me so far) the freshly available LN-KAF was chosen. So even the Deutsche Lufthansa Berlin-Stiftung tells the story of the airplane which gave its name (and a few parts) to the the surviving lady, but it's obviously not the story of the 'main hardware'. Of course, it's a 'formally valid' CV (if your name was LN-KAF, you ARE LN-KAF and you are 'responsible' for all what 'any' LN-KAF has ever done), and it reads much better than "born to a heap of rubbish i.e. three or more scrapped moms"). Especially if it's about a present for the 60th birthday ;-)

German wiki has placed a hyperlink named 'life career' to the junkers web site, but I could not find an English version to offer. I don't know whether en.wiki prefers nitpicking accuracy in details or a harmonious story. Perhaps talk about it? 07-SEP-2009 tomcat --87.180.212.165 (talk) 19:53, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

The article alleges that N52JU, aka "Iron Annie," was acquired by Lufthansa in 1984. I am not 100% positive of this, but I recall reading in an aviation magazine that Lufthansa didn't acquire the airplane until after Caidin's death. As Caidin died in 1997, the date that Lufthansa got Iron Annie and renamed her Tempelhof needs to be verified. Roy Jaruk (talk) 21:09, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

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