D-AREV Junkers
Ju86B-0
(c/n 0011(
This image, from a pre-war British aviation
journal shows the production prototype Ju 86. It was
one of
five Ju 86B-0s to enter DLH service in
1936. These were followed by six Ju 86C-1s the
following
year. There were many more Ju 86s on the German
civil register but these were basic-
ally
military machines. Even though Hitler, in 1934 had
repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, he was
still
canny enough to mask military aircraft in civil guise, at least up
until the late 1930s when such
subterfuge became irrelevant.