New build next generation Auntie Ju?

[Larry Kraus]

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

6286BCFA-3D92-4261-9261-E4FF14D3EEE4 by tanker622001, on Flickr

[wendovertom]

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

Tom P.

[dhfan]

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.

[Noha307]

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.

[Larry Kraus]

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

[JohnB]

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.

[bdk]

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?

[JohnB]

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.

[Scott Rose]

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

[StangStung]

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.

[marine air]

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.

[JohnB]

Marine Air

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.

[marine air]

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.