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Re: Junker 86 discovered in Swedish Lake 11/2/2019

Mon Nov 04, 2019 8:27 pm

Hopefully they can salvage it. Always loved the JU-86.

Re: Junker 86 discovered in Swedish Lake 11/2/2019

Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:23 am

Col. Rohr wrote:The Swedish AF announced that they have discovered a Swedish AF Ju-86 that went down 76 years ago with all seven crew members. Its location is being kept a secret for now but the lake is in Northern Sweden.

If you go to this link and go down to the video section there is a video of it, looks complete.

https://www.kuriren.nu/nyheter/


How can you tell it "looks complete"? The video really didn't show much at all.

Re: Junker 86 discovered in Swedish Lake 11/2/2019

Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:10 am

Possibly this one

http://forum.flyghistoria.org/viewtopic ... 53&t=19096

From Scramble.nl

144 B3A 0860363 Written Off w/o 03feb43, location unknown

144
B 3A / B / A
Type: Junkers Ju 86K-4
Manufactured by Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, Dessau
c / n: 086 0363 Year of
manufacture: 1938

1938-03-17 Delivered to F1, code F1-14, F1-3 , F1-33
1938-03-17 Approved
1941-04 Engine change and re-designation to B 3B.
1941-12 Engine change and re-designation to B 3A.
1943-02-03 Wreckage on Lake Puostijärvi ice.
Bad weather. Ff furir Uno HEStröm, former associate Stig H. Sjögren, deputy corporal K. Håkan Gabrielsson, former deputy corporal John A. Lindahl, former deputy corporal E. Holger Westholm and former military conscript E. Åke Knutsson perished.
1943-05-22 Discarded, total failure.

https://larsan13.files.wordpress.com/20 ... -02-04.jpg
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