[edNorth]

Ok. Here is what I have on D-AQUI, both of them, but one wing of the "original" is still flying on todays D-AQUI / D-CDLH. History you state in WW2 does not match what I have here. From it (I think) it was operated by DLH in Norway up to 1945, not a Luftwaffe transport Staffeln, but seems was transferred to Luftwaffe almost at wars end. This history below is only collected from many sources (including info from Norwegian and German experts writings on its history from many years ago). Additions to its history is always welcome, the Stkz. for the present one is missing from this collected data.

5489 Ju 52/3m ge D-AQUI mkrs
Known first flight at Dessau 06.04.36 [F Maringer, in log BM Heinz Schreiber] - DLH "Fritz Simon" delivered 10.04.36 - lsd LN-DAH DNL Fred Olsen & Bergenske "Falken" from 01.07.1936 - Captured by German forces in April 1940 - cv Ju 52 g2e/See at Norderney - D-AQUI DLH "Kurt Wintgens" 08.1940 - Returned Norway 23.09.1940 for wartime services and crashed during the war - Repaired - tfd Seetransportfliegerstaffel 2 08.05.1945 - Flown Sola to Oslo - Surrendered 10.05.1945 - RNoAF 21 (T) Flight Skattora 28.05.1945 / 12.09.1945 - Horten Flyfabrikk (20.03.1946 / 16.05.1945) - LN-KAF DDL 18.05.1946 "Askeladden" (Rebuilt 1947 with the fuselage of W.Nr. 130714 and one wing from W.Nr. 2982; see W.Nr. 130714 for further details)

130714 Ju 52/3m g8e (Bernburg mfd 1943) Luftwaffe
ff 20.07.1943 - tfd Luftpark (See) Kiel Holtenau for conversion 24.07.1943 - cv Ju 52 g7e/See (Seaplane) del 02.08.1943 - Luftwaffe Luftflotte 5 - xx - 8A+?K Seetransportflieger-staffel 2 (Sola/See) - Surrendered at Sola/See (Stavanger Harbor) 10.05.1945 - Trondheim - RNoAF 21 (T) Flight, Skattora - Horten Flyfabrikk 19.09.1945 - LN-KAL DNL 08.05.1946 (ntu) LN-KAF DNL 14.02.1948 "Askeladden" (NOTE: the old Ju 52/3m LN-KAF W.Nr. 5489 of DNL was rebuilt in 1947 with the complete fuselage of W.Nr. 052/130714 & a wing from W.Nr. 052/ 2982) - Later to SAS - Bought by Kapitan Cristian Drexel but sank in harbor in Norway October 1956 - Overhauled and left as landplane on SS MARGARETE BAKKE for Ecuador at Oslo 30.07.1957 - HC-ABS Transportes Aereos Orientales Cia Lta, Quito, 1957 - "Amasonas" - Wfu 1962 - Open storage at Quito 1962 / 1970 - N130LW Lester F. Weaver, Polo, Illinois, USA, 25.05.1970 - tf Quito 10.11. 1970 - arr Dixon, USA 22.11.1970 - Cannon Aircraft 1974 - N52JU Martin Caidin Productions, Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA 1974 - Tico, Florida 05.03.1975 - "Iron Annie" - Dam in accident Gainesville, Florida, 17.07.1980 - Lufthansa Traditionsflug - Flew the North-Atlantic, starting out 13.12.1984 - Flew from Narsarsuaq (16:06) but experienced engine troble and was "intercepted" by Beech King-Air TF-DCA and USAF HH-3E "Jolly Green" but reached Reykjavik safely (22:56 hrs) 25.12.1984. Departed 26.12.1984 , enroute to Prestwick, then to Germany finishing on 28.12.1984 (the first original Ju 52/3m to fly the North-Atlantic Ferry route) - D-CDLH Lufthansa Traditionsflug and restored as D-AQUI "Fritz Simon" - rolled out again 07.01.1986 - test flight 01.04.1986 - "Berlin-Tempelhof" (Lufthansa) - Toured the USA 1990 / 1991 - Based at Hamburg in flying display condition (1998/2005)

Best regards
Ed