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What plane is this..?..Croydon airport 1942
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Aircraft spotters....help please
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What plane is this..?..Croydon airport 1942
Pretty sure that's a Junckers JU 52.
N, Maybe.
N, Maybe.
KZNSeagull
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I reckon that is a decent shout.
daveinprague
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Sounds about right
Seagull on the wing
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Thanks for input....I have been through my aircraft spotters book from WW2...going by the square passenger windows and it looks like it has a prop on the nose...so more of a transport/passenger carrier. Good shot at the main guess....bu twhat/ why would a complete German aircraft be doing at Croydon airport in 1942.
Dunno. You asked what the plane was; I've said I'm pretty sure what it is. Can't help with the follow up question, I'm afraid...except....how certain are you that it is Croydon airport? Oh...and JU 52 were sold in civilian strip before the war, so maybe, if it is Croydon, a local carrier bought one?
BattFink
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Not convinced by the lack of engine cowling on the nose
Looks like it might be a Wibault 282
Looks like it might be a Wibault 282
Phil B
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It's a Ford Trimotor, Shirley ....
Ooops no! Wibault it is ...
Ooops no! Wibault it is ...
Tom Hark Preston Park
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And why would its undercarriage have writing 'AIR..' in English rather than German? Unless it was a German aircraft bought before the war for pleasure flights or somesuch.
AlbionPics&SouthCoastTwit
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A bit of espionage? You create something to fool the locals. Why were Brit soldiers found in German army uniforms?
KZNSeagull
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Perhaps it was the plane that the REAL Rudolph Hess flew to England?
Tony Towner's Fridge
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It's a Wee Fokker or a Boing Creamliner...plane to see in my book....
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Langley
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Wrong undercarriage for a JU52
RexCathedra
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Seagull on the wing
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THAT LOOKS PRETTY MUCH THE PLANE TO ME.....Good find....I know it was Croydon airport,my grandmother lived about 2 miles from there and that's me (3 y.o.) and mother under the plane
Tony Towner's Fridge
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Fact: I work in the building in Glasgow City Centre where Rudolph Hess was kept for three days after he landed on Uplawmoor. The authorities feared civil uprising and so didn't want him kept in a local police cell. So they found this place with a large vault underneath and put him here instead. I can report that i)he no longer is downstairs and ii) Gary Kemp and the others of Spandau Ballet are still there.
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