Issue No 21 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN 7
Stroud account was G-AHOF’s interior colour
scheme. Can you believe: pinkish walls, cream
ceiling, brown carpet, blue seats and grey
curtains? Another passenger on the same flight
as John noted that the light switch in the
lavatory still said “Ein” and “Aus”!
The Ju 52/3ms were equipped with MF/DF,
Standard Beam Approach and VHF/RT in
addition to normal communications equipment.
Painted silver overall, the Jupiter-Class
Ju 52/3ms sported BEA red cheat lines.
Junkers 52/3m.g8e G-AHOG was previously
VM979 and, like G-AHOF, was one of 60 or so
Ju 52s impressed after capture and held by the
Enemy Aircraft Storage & Servicing Unit at
Hamburg/Fuhlsbüttel for possible future use as
transports. It was sold in February 1946 and after
conversion and furnishing by Short Bros &
Harland Ltd at Belfast it received a Certificate of
Airworthiness in November 1946.Send readers’ letters for publication to: Air Correspondence, The Aviation Historian, PO Box 962, Horsham
RH12 9PP, UK, or (preferably) e-mail them to the Managing Editor at [email protected]
Richard Riding sent these photographs to accompany
his letter on these pages about Junkers Ju 52/3m
G-AHOG. CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Capt Moynihan
and crew at Croydon on February 21, 1947 — the BEA
“Jupiters” normally carried a crew of four: Captain, First
Officer, Radio Operator and Steward/Stewardess; the
starboard engine nacelle (with its own fuel gauge) and
wing seen from E.J. Riding’s seat; passengers boarding
G-AHOG at Croydon on the morning of February 21 (a
freezing A.J. Jackson is seen at right); the aircraft at
Speke, Liverpool, on the same day.
E.J. RIDING PHOTOGRAPHS.