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    Airframe Family: Junkers Ju-88
    Latest Model:Ju-88D-3
    Last Military Serial:FE1558 USAAF
    Construction Number:430650
    Compressed ID:Junkers Ju-88D-3 sn FE1558 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Ju-88D-1/Trop.

    June 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fortele Aeriene Romane with s/n 105.
    Known as the Baksheesh, it was the best known Ju 88 of the 15,000 built.

    By July 1943

    Redesignated as Ju-88D-3.

    22 July 1943

    A disillusioned Romanian pilot flew the aircraft to Cyprus to defect to British forces there.

    October 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n HK959.
    Overhauled at Heliopolis.

    October 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n FE1558.

    14 October 1943

    Arrived Wright Field, OH, from Cairo via South Atlantic route.

    Circa 1946

    Assigned to Davis-Monthan Army Airfield, AZ for storage.

    18 May 1958


    Photographer: Brian Bake

    January 1960

    To United States Air Force Museum, Patterson Field (East Side), Dayton, OH.
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    1965


    Photographer: Unknown

    Circa 1969


    Photographer: Unknown

    By 1970

    Markings Applied: F6-AL
    Marked as aircraft with the German Air Force.

    October 1970

    Transported by ground. Delivered to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    March 1972


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    March 1972


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    21 May 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Junkers Ju-88D as displayed at the USAF Museum in May 1973.

    21 May 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Junkers Ju-88D as displayed at the USAF Museum in May 1973.

    Markings Applied: 105
    Painted in the Romanian Air Force markings it carried in July 1943.

    21 July 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    18 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

    6 May 2008


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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