Survivors
Two intact Ju 87s survive:
- Ju 87 R-2/Trop. Werk Nr. 5954
- This aircraft is displayed in the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. It was abandoned in North Africa and found by British forces in 1941. The Ju 87 was donated by the British government and sent to the USA during the war. It was fully restored in 1974 by the EAA of Wisconsin.
- Ju 87 G-2, Werk Nr. 494083.
- A later, ground-attack variant, this is displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum in London; it was captured by British troops in Germany in 1945. It is thought to have been built in 1943–1944 as a D-5 before being rebuilt as a G-2 variant, possibly by fitting G-2 outer wings to a D-5 airframe. After the war, it was one of 12 captured German aircraft selected by the British for museum preservation. In 1967, permission was given to use the aircraft in the film Battle of Britain and it was repainted and modified to resemble a 1940 variant of the Ju 87. The engine was found to be in excellent condition and there was little difficulty in starting it, but returning the aircraft to airworthiness was considered too costly for the filmmakers, and ultimately, models were used in the film to represent Stukas. In 1998, the film modifications were removed, and the aircraft returned to the original G-2 configuration.
Other aircraft survive as wreckage, recovered from crash sites.
- The Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin has the wreckage of two complete aircraft that were recovered from separate crash sites near Murmansk in 1990 and 1994.
- The Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum displays the remains of an aircraft that crashed near Saint-Tropez in 1944 and was raised from the seabed in 1989.
- In October 2006, a Ju 87 D-3/Trop. was recovered underwater, near Rhodes.
- Junkers Ju 87 B-2 9801 (serial number: 0406) under reconstruction at Yugoslav Aeronautical Museum.
- Junkers Ju 87 R-2 Werk Nr. 0875709 is reportedly owned by Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection (FHC) and under a long-term restoration. It served as LI+KU with 1./St.G.5, and was recovered to the United Kingdom in 1998 before being sold to the FHC.
- German Army researchers raised what they thought for over ten years was a Junkers Ju87. It has been sitting about 6 miles off the coast of the German Island of Rügen since the early 1940s. After finally raising the fuselage in June 2012, it was discovered to be the much larger Junkers Ju 88.The two Junkers planes shared several parts including the engines and from the way it sat in the seabed it appeared to have been a Ju 87.
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Werk Nr. 494083, RAF Museum
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Ju 87 wreck, Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum
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Deutsches Technikmuseum, with a veteran gunner speaking of his combat in North Africa
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CWerk Nr. 5954, Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
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Ju 87 G-2, Werk Nr. 494083, RAF Museum
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