Picture No 0273

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The prototype Bucker Jungmann flew on 27th April 1934, powered by an 80hp Hirth HM 60R four cylinder in line engine. Deliveries of the first production version, the 131A, began later that year, with the first examples going to the Deutsche Luftsportverband (Airsport Association). By 1935, the Luftwaffe begun to receive some as primary trainers. In 1936, the original engine was replaced by the more powerful 105hp Hirth HM 504A-2.
GD EG is one of the many Jungmanns built under licence in Spain after World War 2 by Construcciones Aeronauticas S.A. for the Spanish Air Force as a CASA 1-131E.
At the end of its service life in 1987, it was imported to England and registered as G-RETA. Thereafter it flew for over a decade with various private owners until being damaged and temporarily grounded following a ground looping incident. In 2003 the aircraft, still un-repaired, was bought for the Shuttleworth Collection with funds provided by the Shuttleworth Veteran Aeroplane Society. It was restored to airworthiness in the Collection workshops and is currently painted in the scheme worn by a Luftwaffe Jungmann liberated from under the noses of the Germans and flown to England in 1941 by two brave Frenchmen.
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