Junkers Ju 52
Type: Medium Transport
Origin: Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG
Crew: Two
Capacity: 17 passengers
Models: V1 to V8, A, B, and R series
First Flight:
Final Delivery:
Powerplant:
Dimensions
Weights:
Performance
Armament
Origin: Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG
Crew: Two
Capacity: 17 passengers
Models: V1 to V8, A, B, and R series
First Flight:
- Ju 52: October 13, 1930
- Ju 52/3m: May 1932
- Ju 52/3m g3e bomber: October 1934
Final Delivery:
- French AAC.1: August 1947
- Spainish CASA 352-L: 1952
Powerplant:
- Model: BMW 132A-3
- Type: 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine
- Number: 3
- Horsepower: 725 hp
- Propellers: 2-bladed variable-pitch propeller
Dimensions
- Length: 18.90 m (62 ft 0 in)
- Wingspan: 29.248 m (95 ft 11.5 in)
- Height: 5.550 m (18 ft 2.5 in)
- Wing area: 110.5000 m2 (1,189.412 sq ft)
Weights:
- Empty weight: 5,720 kg (12,610 lb)
- Gross weight: 9,500 kg (20,944 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 10,499 kg (23,146 lb)
Performance
- Maximum speed:
- 265.5 km/h (165.0 mph, 143.4 kn) at sea level
- 276.8 km/h (172.0 mph; 149.5 kn) at 910 metres (3,000 ft)
- Cruise speed:
- 246 km/h (153 mph, 133 kn) maximum continuous at 910 metres (3,000 ft)
- 209 km/h (130 mph; 113 kn) economical cruise
- Range: 998 km (620 mi, 539 nmi)
- Service ceiling: 5,900 m (19,360 ft)
- Rate of climb: 3.9 m/s (770 ft/min)
- Time to altitude: 910 metres (3,000 ft) in 17 minutes 30 seconds
- Wing loading: 83.35 kg/m2 (17.07 lb/sq ft)
- Power/mass: 7.95 kg/kW
Armament
- Guns:
- 1 × 7.92 mm (0.312 in) MG 15 machine gun or 13 mm (0.512 in) MG 131 machine gun in a dorsal position
- 1 × 7.92 mm (0.312 in) MG 15 machine gun in a semi-retractable bustbin turret
- Bombs:
- Up to 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) of bombs
Sources:
Gunston, Bill & Wood, Tony - Hitler's Luftwaffe
, 1977, Salamander
Books Ltd., London
Gunston, Bill - The Encyclodepia of the Worlds Combat aircraft, 1976, Chartwell Books, Inc., New York
Wikipedia: Junkers Ju 52
Gunston, Bill & Wood, Tony - Hitler's Luftwaffe
, 1977, Salamander
Books Ltd., LondonGunston, Bill - The Encyclodepia of the Worlds Combat aircraft, 1976, Chartwell Books, Inc., New York
Wikipedia: Junkers Ju 52
