Sabena aircraft 1938?

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My mum came as a refugee out of Germany in September 1938 on a Sabena aircraft to London from Berlin. They made an unscheduled stop in Duesseldorf where all the passengers had to get off and be searched. Then they continued on to London, coming low across the channel and landing on a drizzly evening in Croydon.

She thinks it was a corrugated biplane. Is this possible? Anyone know what it was likely to be?

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Corrugated biplane? H'mm, not sure about that. But corrugated very likely since the Junkers Ju-52/3M was the mainstay of SABENA's European fleet at that time.

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OK, probably it was a Ju 52, then. Her over-riding recollection is of a corrugated wing over her head. Must have been a very atmospheric flight, epecially witht he Gestapo search at Duesseldorf. Previous to the flight she and her grandmother had had to manhandle her grandfather out of the house because he refused to go at the last minute. Then she was utterly distraught at landing in shabby old England and driving through miles of dark, grimy South London terraced streets to a B+B in Maida Vale.

Thanks a lot, Aerohack.

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Not a Fokker was it? The F.VII was the mainstay of Sabena's inter-war fleet, and it had a high wing - but was it corrugated?

*Edit* Nope, it wasn't! Just been Googling and it was a smooth wooden one.

Back to the Junkers I reckon!