Warplanes of Germany: Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 D-1/Trop preserved in the USA: Ohio, Dayton, National Museum of the USAF

Warplane Survivors USA: Ohio, Dayton, National Museum of the USAF: Junkers Ju 88 D-1/Trop

(NMUSAF Photos)

Junkers Ju 88 D-1/Trop (Serial No. 0880430650), F6-Al, 105, C/N 430650.  Ex-RAF (Serial No. HK959).  This Ju 88D-1/Trop (later designated Ju 88D-3), is a long-range photographic reconnaissance version modified for tropical use.  Known as the "Baksheesh", it was the best known Ju 88 of the 15,000 built.  Completed in June 1943, this aircraft was delivered to Romania, an ally of Germany during the Second World War.  In July 1943, a disillusioned Romanian pilot flew the aircraft to Cyprus to defect to British forces there.  The Royal Air Force turned over Baksheesh to the US Army Air Forces.  Test pilots at Wright Field flew the aircraft extensively.  At the end of the war, the USAAF stored it in the Arizona desert, until Jan 1960, when it was moved to the NMUSAF.  Baksheesh is painted in the Romanian Air Force markings it carried in July 1943.

(NMUSAF Photo)

Fritz X bomb.

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