On this day in aviation history, March 7, 1932, the Junkers Ju 52/3M took to the skies for the first time. Designed in the 1920s by Ernst Zindel, this transport aircraft emerged during German ...

Lufthansa is gearing up for its 100th anniversary celebrations in 2026, with next year marking a century since the foundation of the first iteration of the German flag carrier. A key plan on this ...

The venerable and popular Junkers JU-52 is getting a new lease on life with an updated version planned for entry into service in 2026. A model of the planned JU-52 NG that Junkers Flugzeugwerke aims ...

In the 1930s, “Auntie Ju” was considered the absolute pinnacle of airliners—comfortable, reliable, even beautiful, despite its strange warehouse-like corrugated aluminum skin. In the 1930s, “Auntie Ju ...

The first Local Legend plane coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator is finally up for grabs after a slight delay. Tante JU or Aunt JU, as the plane is called in Germany, the Junkers JU-52 is now ...

Asobo Studio, the team behind Microsoft Flight Simulator, has just revealed the development roadmap for the next three months. Although many of the updates mentioned in the roadmap don’t say too much ...

Swiss light aircraft developer Junkers Aircraft is proposing reviving development of the Ju-52 trimotor as a potential low-cost transport aircraft. The Ju-52NG would reuse the basic configuration of ...

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Click to open image viewer. Junkers (CASA) Ju52; low wing tri-motor aircraft; natural corrugated aluminum finish with matte black painted on the nose and engine cowlings; Lufthansa livery with black ...

BERLIN -- Determining why a vintage plane crashed in the Swiss Alps will be challenging since the 79-year-old aircraft did not have black boxes and was traveling in an area without frequent radar ...

Last month, Microsoft Flight Simulator developer Asobo Studio revealed that a new series of crafts would be heading to the simulation game as part of a series called 'Local Legends'. This celebrates ...