List of Junkers Ju 52 operators

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The civil operators was operated airlines

• Aeroposta Argentina^[1]
• Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)^[2]
• Ministry of Agriculture^[3]

• Österreichische Luftverkehrs^[4]

• Sabena^[5]

• Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano^[5]

• Aeronorte^[6]
• Cruzeiro do Sul^[7]
• Syndicato Condor - Serviços Aéreos Condor^[5]
• VASP^[5]
• VARIG^[5]

• Canadian Airways Limited^[8]
• Canadian Pacific Airlines^[9]

• Eurasia^[4]

• ČSA Československé aerolinie^[10]
• Government of Czechoslovakia (postwar)

• Det Danske Luftfartsselskab^[10]

• AGO^[10]

• Aero Oy^[10]
• DLL

• Aero Cargo^[11]
• Aigle Azur^[11]
• Air France^[11]
• Air Nolis^[12]
• Air Ocean^[11]
• Avions Bleus^[12]
• CTA Languedoc Roussillon^[13]
• LASO France^[12]
• Société Auxiliare de Navigation Aérienne
• SOCOTRA^[14]
• Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux^[15]

• Deruluft
• Deutsche Lufthansa^[10]

• Deutsche Luft Hansa
• Lufthansa (one still in used for special flights)

• Elliniki Eteria Enaerion Sinkinonion

EEES operated three Junkers Ju 52/3m. The first arrived on June 28, 1938, with W.Nr.5984 and registration SX-ACF. The other two were SX-ACH (W.Nr.6004) and SX-ACI (W.Nr.6025). All three were used by the Royal Hellenic Air Force during the 1940-41 war against Italy and Germany. All were captured by the Wehrmacht and transferred to the Luftwaffe.^[16]

• Malert^[17]

• Ala Littoria^[18]

• Direccao de Exploracao dos Transportes Aéreos^[18]

• Gibbes Sepik Airways
• Mandated Airlines

Between 1955 and 1959 Gibbes Sepik Airways operated three Ju 52/3ms purchased in Sweden. Mandated Airlines bought Gibbes Sepik Airways in 1959 and continued to operate the two surviving aircraft until the following year.^[19][20]

• Det Norske Luftfartselskap^[18]

• LOT Polish Airlines (1 in 1936–1939)^[18]

• Aero Portuguesa^[14]

• LARES^[18]
• Transnistrian air section^[21]

• South African Airways^[18]

• Deruluft
• Aeroflot

• Iberia Airlines^[22]

• AB Aerotransport^[22]

• Ju-Air (still used, used only 2 Ju 52)

• Turkish Airlines

• British Airways Limited^[22]
• British European Airways^[22]
• British Overseas Airways Corporation
• Railway Air Services^[22]

• Compañía Aeronáutica Uruguaya S.A. (CAUSA)^[23]

• JAT^[24]

• Argentine Air Force^[25]

• Austrian Air Force^[26]

• Belgian Air Force

• Force Publique

• Bolivian Air Force^[27]

• Bulgarian Air Force^[28]

• Chinese Nationalist Air Force^[29]

• Colombian Air Force^[30]

• Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia^[31]

• Czechoslovak Air Force (postwar)^[32]

• Volkspolizei-Luft^[33]

• Ecuadorian Air Force^[33]

• French Air Force (postwar)^[34]
• French Navy (postwar)^[35]

When France was liberated some Ju 52 were captured and used. The Ju 52 had been manufactured in France during the war by the Junkers-controlled Amiot company, and production continued after 1945 as the Amiot AAC 1 Toucan (more than 500 were produced). French built Ju 52s were widely used, not only in France but also in colonial wars in Algeria, Vietnam and Thailand.

• Luftwaffe^[36]

• Hellenic Air Force^[37]

• Royal Hungarian Air Force^[38]

• Regia Aeronautica^[39]

• Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service: One aircraft rented from DNL from January 1940 to 9 April 1940.^[39]
• Norwegian Air Force (captured) (postwar)^[40]

• Peruvian Air Force^[41]

• Portuguese Air Force^[26]

• Royal Romanian Air Force^[38]
• Romanian Air Force (postwar)^[42]

• Slovak Air Force (1939–1945)^[43]

• South African Air Force^[44]

• Soviet Air Force^[45]

• Spanish Air Force^[46]

• Swedish Air Force^[47]

• Swiss Air Force^[26]

• Syrian Air Force (postwar)^[48]

• United States Army Air Forces

USAAF operated one aircraft known as Junkers C-79.^[49]

• SFR Yugoslav Air Force^[50]
  • 1st Transport Aviation Regiment (1944-1948)
  • 119th Transport Aviation Regiment (1948-1966)
  • 81st Support Aviation Regiment (1961-1964)