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Originally Posted by Gerhard
The first confirmed Bernburg-built Ju 52 is WNr 5912.
There may have been a few earlier examples built at Bernburg, and, for some time, the lines at Dessau and Bernburg seem to have been run in parallel.
Gerhard
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No, no. No there was no Bernburg "production" per se.
Just assembly - wings, engines, undercarriages and tails mated to fuselage, test and delivery. Period.
Bernburg/Strenzfeld was only assembly location, fuselages were from Junkers Zweigwerk-Aschersleben, like Ju 87 and Ju 88.
Wings come from elsewhere etc. I find this strange still these errors abound. This has been stated many time, is marked on every dataplate
(one just has to know how to look)and I have this also verified from Junkers Aschersleben records in Bundesarchiv.
Ju 52/3m fuselage (parts) also come from Leipzig, and ABC program had more variation on production.
Image upload tonight at tinypic seems broken. Have some pages here of Ju 52/3m fuselages "taktstrasse" at Aschersleben,
both old line and newer. Whilst figuring out upload possiblilities, I also remember having actual Ju 52 fuselage production chart from FZA (Aschersleben)
and Serie chart for 1941-1942. But this is far more complex than practical to do here.