Welcome to U-AIR Info

All about sunken aviation history for divers, researchers and aviation historians with a special focus on the mediterranean aircraft wrecks and the MTO. You'll find also information about salvaged aircraft, archives and document sources, links and related articles, videos and books. Why this page? See "About U-air" for more information about this website projects. If you have more wreck info, pictures, documents, passion or special knowledge to add to this site, feel free to get in contact. This website is dedicated to Ludwig Hain Ludwig Hain started in WWII as flight mechanic of a Ju 52. Later he became Pilot and was based in norway. Because of shortage of material in 1944/45, they could not accomplish many missions. So in his free time, he accompanied a german navy group to salvage sunken aircraft to get the needed spare parts for his Luftwaffe unit. After a while, he was offered to do a navy diver course himself, a first step in the fascinating underwaterworld. After the war in the early fifties he used his knowlegde as pilot and professional diver: He founded the leading salvage company in southern germany named "Hain und Schuster". This company was the reason, i was diving unsuccessfully for years in bavarian lakes looking for aircraft wrecks. Ludwig Hain has already salvaged almost every available underwater wreck in bavaria before i was even born. In spring 2009 i have had the chance to meet Mr. Hain to exchange some experiences and i obtained his photo collection with pictures of all the salvaged aircrafts i was searching underwater for so long. Finally, it is not only important to know, where a aircraft crashed in the sea, even more important is the question: Already salvaged? So despite my almost 500 useless dives i dedicated this website to him. Ludwig Hain died in June 2009.

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