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| Keywords: Junkers Ju 86 Lawrence Hargrave in Australia 1937.jpg A Junkers Ju 86Z-2 in Australia in 1937 <br>This aircraft was built in 1937 by Junkers at Dessau Germany and was promoted Ju 86B-Australien W Nr 086 0952 civil registration D-AGEY by the company It was flown to Australia in March 1937 by Hans Kommoll On arrival in Australia it was registered VH-UYA and named Lawrence Hargrave The aircraft was flown to Australia as part of barter agreement with a Sydney wool broker H Beinssen The trade was for £ 23 000 worth of wool being shipped to Germany while Mr Beinssen got the aircraft for sale in Australia Althought the aircraft was fast its Jumo 205 Diesel engines were unreliable As no orders followed it was dismantled in Melbourne and shipped back to Germany on 25 August 1937 as D-AREY It became the personal aircraft of Junkers director Koppenberg D-ARJF Herbert Norkus then DD+VL http //www sl nsw gov au State Library of New South Wales http //acms sl nsw gov au/item/itemDetailPaged aspx itemID 153389 Sam Hood collection photo http //acms sl nsw gov au/album/ItemViewer aspx itemid 823761 suppress N imgindex 49 1937 Sam Hood Copying Conditions Copyright expired - Created before 1955 frame cropped PD-Australia Junkers Ju 86 Australia in the 1930s Lawrence Hargrave | ||||
