Junkers Ju 290 - version overview
Sources used:
William Green, Warplanes of the Third Reich, London, Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd, 1970, ISBN 0-356-02382-6.
Thomas H. Hitchcock, Junkers 290 Monogram Close-Up 3, Boylston, Massachusetts, Monogram Aviation Publications, 1975, ISBN 0-914144-03-0.
www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org
http://uboat.net/technical/ju290.htm
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww2/ju290a.html aviarmor.net
www.luftarchiv.de
http://www.aer.ita.br/~bmattos/mundo/ww2/ju290.htm
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| Designation | Aircraft design - description |
| Junkers Ju 290 V1 | prototype takeoff 16 July 1942 |
| Junkers Ju 290 A-0 | preproduction transport aircraft, BMW 801L engines |
| Junkers Ju 290 A-1 | serial transport aircraft, 8 units (3 units were completed as A-2) |
| Junkers Ju 290 A-2 | anti-ship reconnaissance aircraft, summer 1943, FuG 200 Hohentwiel radar, 3 units (converted from A-1) and 1 built directly as A-2 |
| Junkers Ju 290 A-3 [/col] anti-ship reconnaissance aircraft, BMW 801D engines, aerodynamic modifications, 5 pieces | |
| Junkers Ju 290 A-4 | FX 1400 Fritz armament, Hs 293, Hs 294, with bulbous nose from Letov and FuG 203 radar, improved armour, 5 pcs |
| Junkers Ju 290 A-5 | BMW 801D engines, 11 pcs |
| Junkers Ju 290 A-6 | transport version with pressurized cabin, apparently not completed |
| Junkers Ju 290 A-7 | extended glass nose with MG 151/20 gun, spring 1944, most numerous version, 28 aircraft planned, 19 completed, 6 destroyed before handover |
| Junkers Ju 290 A-8 | reinforced defensive armament, late 1944, 4 fuselages built but apparently no aircraft completed |
| Junkers Ju 290 A-9 | 3 pieces, one was completed as Adolf Hitler's private transport plane but without pressurized cabin, included with I/KG200 |
| Junkers Ju 290 B-1 (V8) | prototype long-range high-altitude bomber, converted from A-7 ?, flew on 10 May 1944 |
| Junkers Ju 290 B-2 | unrealized serial production of long-range bomber |
| Letov L 290 Orel | after the war, a prototype transport aircraft for the CSA built from parts of the Ju 290 A-8 and Ju 290 B-2. |
| Manufacturer | Production period | Units produced | |||
| Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, Dessau and Bernburg | 1938 - 1945 | assembly and flight | |||
| Flugzeugwerke Letov AG | 1939 - 1945 | production of prototype parts and testing facility | Red Letov, Czechoslovak aircraft factory, Letnany | 1945 - 1946 | production of the prototype of the L 290 Orel transport aircraft |
Sources used:
William Green, Warplanes of the Third Reich, London, Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd, 1970, ISBN 0-356-02382-6.
Thomas H. Hitchcock, Junkers 290 Monogram Close-Up 3, Boylston, Massachusetts, Monogram Aviation Publications, 1975, ISBN 0-914144-03-0.
www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org
http://uboat.net/technical/ju290.htm
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww2/ju290a.html aviarmor.net
www.luftarchiv.de
http://www.aer.ita.br/~bmattos/mundo/ww2/ju290.htm
author archive