MG 15 Stuka Rear Gunner gun turret

[siegfried1234]

Relic gun turret from the famous Stuka Ju 87 B dive bomber of WW2. This relic is not too heavy so will not be very expensive to ship. Could clean up very well and display better if you fit an new clear plastic window, refinish and repaint etc. Would really make that Mg 15 display, there are not many of these around. Price $350 plus Postage. Email me for more pics and details.

[Bil]

Sigfreid-can we get more info on the Stuka project in another thread,out of the FS column? It looks like quite a project! ---bil

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

How much for the rest of the airplane?

[siegfried1234]

The bargain price for the rest of the plane would be around 10 million dollars plus There are only 2 near complete examples left in the world today. A JU 87 B-2 in the US and JU87 D at the RAF museum in Hendon outside London. There are a few and I mean few, wreckage parts in other museums around the world, mostly from crashes or pulled rotting off the sea bed, so only small sections of the Stuka survive. Its not surprising as the Luftwaffe production number was very low, they never had more than a small number in operation at any one time during the war. The Stuka was one of the smallest production runs of any classic WW2 aircraft, it was a specialist aircraft for specialist ops and what little survived WW2 were mainly scrapped. It had a huge reputation for such a small number of aircraft, the German propaganda machine really loved the Stuka and its screaming dive sound and warbird looks. I have seen the real thing in the RAF museum and it does look like mean even when sat on peacful display.

[tomcatshaas]

I would love to get my hands on another warbird project again and get involved, but 10 mil. is a bit out of my price range.

Thanks!

TC

[IMBLITZVT]

Yeah the one in the US is in Chicago and it has a few bullet holes... I have seen it. Very cool plane!

[siegfried1234]

Yes, thats the Ju 87 B-2 which was captured in the desert in North Africa and now lives hanging from the Museum roof in its desert camo in the US, its the early war version, the same version that was used during the Battle of Britain 1940, fall of France 1940 and invasion of Poland 1939, thats the same Blitzkrieg version, the same version that the turret I am selling above is, Ju 87 B-2, they were replace with later versions of the Stuka from 1941 onwards, so its even rarer than the later Ju 87 D's and they are as rare as hens teeth

[flemgunner]

You could always build a langhurst version of one. Hard to find the info on them but its out there
Glenn

[garyd]

there is a stuka that flies in ussr some where the video is on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWnr-5rZ5gM

[IMBLITZVT]

Thats pretty cool. I wonder how many "rare" items are just hidden away in Russia.

[Cpt_Kirks]

Yeah the one in the US is in Chicago and it has a few bullet holes... I have seen it. Very cool plane!

Yeah, the U-505 there is cool, too.

I wonder how they beat out the Air and Space Museum for the Stuka?

[siegfried1234]

Yep, that links is to a half size flying replica, the real Stuka is way bigger, the guy standing next to it would just about reach to the top of the undercart leg on the real one, LOL

[garyd]

its a 3/4 replica. looks pretty cool. btw is this the wreck that was pulled off of rhodes in 2006 from the ocean? or are tis the one of the two that was found in murmansk in 1990 and 1994.

[oldiron]

The Stuka at the Museum of Science and industry In Chicago; has a 37 mm Cannon shell hole in the engine block. I was once told that they have another Stuka in storage but i am not sure if that is true or not- Recenty( Past 10 years) both the Stuka and the Spitfire have been well washed and cleaned up of the 50 or more years of dust that they had collected hanging from the ceiling. Because they are more accessable to be seen now from the 2nd floor-- Both aircraft appear in better shape than they had appeared in the past. Nice to see two Warbirds in their original configuration paint etc, never have being repaired or messed with. There is a plaque on the second floor that says who donated them to the Museum; actually it was a British concern during WWII I think !