The fuselage of Junkers Ju 52/3m HB‑HOS was rolled into the hall of the Luftfahrtmuseum Wernigerode in Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany, during April. The interior of the former Swiss Air Force and Ju-Air machine will now be restored to its original 1939 configuration, but, sadly, the museum building isn’t big enough to reattach both wings, although one wing may be fitted in the future.
HB-HOS — formerly serial A-701 in air force service — was operated by Ju-Air from Dübendorf alongside HB-HOP and HB‑HOT, until the loss of the latter machine and its 20 occupants when it crashed into the western slope of Piz Segnas in the Glarus Alps on 4 August 2018. Plans to put the surviving two Ju 52s back into passenger service subsequently failed. There are now no original Ju 52s flying, and just one exemplar of the type airworthy in Europe — the Spanish-built, post-war CASA 352L F-AZJU of the Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis at La Ferté-Alais.
