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This showed up in today’s (5 May 2022) Aviation Week Daily Briefing.

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That would be SWEET - especially if it made something super local like a Salt Lake to Wendover weekend junket flight feasible.

Tom P.

This was posted on the Pprune forum a couple of weeks ago.

https://www.aerokurier.de/aero-2022-mod ... -52-kommt/

It looks decidedly odd with inline engines and multi-blade props.

Reminds me of the Stout Bushmaster 2000 and Dornier Do 24 ATT.

The website Flyer has an article with a picture of a model and some additional details.

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This picture is from the Pprune article linked by dhfan

00225E7D-F2F3-4EA6-BBAB-AE7C286983BD by tanker622001, on Flickr

These are from Flyer linked by Noha307

06C13580-A6A2-443B-BA62-A22F738D2789 by tanker622001, on Flickr

630178FE-BDE4-4EF7-B07F-636A4DD0F882 by tanker622001, on Flickr

Well, with three new type engines, it may be "low cost" (a very relative term when it comes to aircraft), but it won't be cheap.

Anyone who has been in a JU-52 will find the claim that it will carry six pallets as a surprise unless they enlarge the fuselage.
In my memory it was considerably more narrow than a DC-3.The

I certainly wish them luck.
Hopefully the NG aircraft might help the type return to the tour flight operations which ended a few years ago.

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I thought all the "flight experience" Ju-52s had been taken out of service by government mandate. I wonder how this aircraft would circumvent that?

Of you do a search, you'll find summaries of the incident.
As I understand it, the Swiss banned all vintage airplane passenger experience flights, not specifically the JU-52.
The crash was not a fault of the type, rather the operator. The plane flew into a blind canyon.

Whatever the case, I find it hard to believe they would go into production unless the aircraft was approved commercial use.

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Well that's different. Not quite as pretty as a C-47 with turboprops

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This seems like the answer to a question no one was asking. Like if the 9 year old warbird loving StangStung said, "Wouldn't it be cool if...!" out on the playground.

But what do I know. I'm not really a target demo for a three engine cargo hauler.

There are two companies with STC's to retrofit the DC-3/C-47 with PT-6 turboprops. There is a healthy worldwide demand for these conversions. Each company is cranking out 5 to ten conversions per year and are still buying airframes for conversion. I had lunch with a Nashvillian recently that purchased a factory new Daher Kodiak. It has a single engine PT-6-34 and sold with lots of upgrades for abut $3 million USD. It has a 1,000 mile range and can do 190 knots and seats 10.
So, the JU-52 would compete with other short haul, simple turboprops like the Cessna 208 Caravan, Kodiak, etc. Can it be scratch built for $3 to $6 million? I think the JU-52 has a very low, primitive 1920's era airfoil similar to the Ford Tri-motor. Not convinced there's a market for it. Slow= large fuel burn and short range.

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The Kodiaks are built just up the road from me in Idaho.
A lot of factory pilot training goes on at our local field.
Neat airplane. Despite its looks, it is more of a modern Beaver rather than a mini-Caravan.

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I was impressed with the Kodiak. It's a little stubby but can fly 10 folks out of a 1,000' strip. The workmanship was very nice. This particular aircraft had oxygen for ten, stereo, synthetic vision, everything. Plus, its about 70 knots faster than a twin Otter on half the fuel burn per hour.