page_title: Junkers Ju 88
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Junkers Ju 88 / Operators
caption_attribution_description: English: A captured Junkers Ju 88 A-5, RAF serial HM509, of No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft Circus) Flight based at Collyweston, Northamptonshire, in flight. Formerly "M2+MK" of Küstenfliegergruppe 106, this aircraft fell into British hands on 26 November 1941 when its crew became disorientated following an abortive anti-shipping sortie in the Irish Sea and landed by mistake at Chivenor, Devon. HM509 joined No. 1426 Flight, then at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, on 11 December 1941, remaining with them until 26 July 1944, when it was struck off charge. Deutsch: Erbeutete Ju 88 in RAF Farben bei der Erprobung über England
context_page_description: The Junkers Ju 88 was a German World War II Luftwaffe twin-engined multirole combat aircraft. Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works designed the plane in the mid-1930s as a so-called Schnellbomber that would be too fast for fighters of its era to intercept. It suffered from technical problems during its development and early operational periods but became one of the most versatile combat aircraft of the war. Like a number of other Luftwaffe bombers, it served as a bomber, dive bomber, night fighter, torpedo bomber, reconnaissance aircraft, heavy fighter and at the end of the war, as a flying bomb.
  Despite a protracted development, it became one of the Luftwaffe's most important aircraft. The assembly line ran constantly from 1936 to 1945 and more than 15,000 Ju 88s were built in dozens of variants, more than any other twin-engine German aircraft of the period. Throughout production the basic structure of the aircraft remained unchanged.
context_section_description:  Finland
  Finnish Air Force received 24 Ju 88 A-4 aircraft.
  No. 44 Squadron
   France
  French Air Force operated aircraft captured in Toulouse repair depot and other captured by the RAF and USAAF handed over to the French.
  French Navy (Postwar)
   Germany
  Luftwaffe
   Hungary
  Royal Hungarian Air Force
   Italy
  Regia Aeronautica
   Romania
  Royal Romanian Air Force
   United Kingdom
  Royal Air Force
  No. 1426 Flight RAF operated at least five captured aircraft.
   Soviet Union
  Soviet Air Force bought three Ju 88A-1 for evaluation in 1940 and operated captured aircraft.
   Spanish State
  Spanish Air Force bought ten aircraft and put into service another 15 interned during the war.
caption: A captured Junkers Ju 88A-5, RAF serial HM509, of No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft Circus) Flight based at Collyweston, Northamptonshire, in flight
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