Ju52 stkz

[RT]

I am a bit puzzled, by some STKZ of the planes belonging to 1.KGr.zbv 400

Beg. of 1942

AN+B.
AN+BS
AN+BQ

Looks like civil reg. numbers, but the third letter "behave" like a STKZ

???

Rémi

[edNorth]

Any partiular W.Nr.s to go by?

From my fine file, not exactly exact, only notes .. "These following Ju 52/3m g4e (Transports) about W.Nr. 6820 onwards were now getting their Luftwaffe Stammkennzeichen whilst still at the factory (first ordered by RLM on 18.10.1939). Many semi-operational and almost all the non-operational units were using these four letter codes (certainly from March 1940).
Some civil registered examples had got WL- prefix as early as September 1939 (ex- D-Axxx) but most or all Luftwaffe units or bases replacing them with en-masse recoding in ´an near random´ and fragmentary order in October 1939 onwards (this was despite most the units were allocated larger blocks for re-coding but few used them in nummerical order as their machines had near random numbers).
Thus the training or transport units known later appear to have letters ´at near random order´ (here the Ju 52/3m likely produced prior to 6820 for JFM and approx 2873 for ATG). The Lufthansa examples were still flying with civil registrations during the war but very few export machines are found with higher number than this (except few ex- Luftwaffe or Lufthansa machines supplied to their ´neutral´ allies Airliners or Air Forces)."

-Ed

[Merlin]

Remi,

it's simply a misread, TN+BQ and TN+BS were transferred from Fallschirmschule 1 at Wittstock to 1./KGrzbV 400 during December 1941.

[RT]

Thks both, I hv also suspicion on the TN+, the last one AN+B. is probably , TN+BX in KGr.zbv 400's roaster i. dec. 41

Rémi