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Re: eBAy: Captured german planes
Well Ed
The AAC 1 c/n range 1001 - 1038 is usually stated as belonging to captured and reworked aircraft. So far I have only seen very incomplete information regarding these aircraft.
It would not surprise me however if some of them had actually been finished in Colombes with German WNr but had not yet been delivered and of course the French then painted their own c/n on the outside. Also there were loads of Ju 52/3m all over Europe and France certainly received quite a lot of them, reworked them and put them into service using c/n in this range. Since the French own production in Colombes simply started all over again where they had stopped building for the Germans it must have been easy enough to repair/rework/overhaul any non-airworthy airframe received.
Cheers
Stig
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