These walk-around photos were taken at Flygvapenmuseum at Malmen outside Linköping in 2017 and 2019. They show a Junkers Ju 86K, designated B 3 in Swedish service — and a remarkable survivor: this is the only complete and intact Junkers Ju 86 remaining anywhere in the world. The Ju 86 was developed in Germany in the early 1930s simultaneously as a twin-engine medium bomber and a civil airliner, first flying in 1934 and entering Luftwaffe service in 1936. It saw early combat with the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War, though it proved generally inferior to the Heinkel He 111 and was rapidly superseded in German service. Sweden, however, found it well suited to its needs and became one of the type's most committed operators.
Sweden ordered 40 Ju 86Ks from Germany and subsequently licensed production to SAAB in Trollhättan, eventually operating a total of 56 aircraft across several sub-variants under the B 3 designation. They served primarily as bombers but some were later converted for radio interception and transport duties. The last Swedish Ju 86s were not retired until 1958 — two decades after the type had left front-line service almost everywhere else. This example, individual 0155, werksnummer 0860412, is a German-built Ju 86K-13, Swedish designation B 3C-2, manufactured in 1938. It is displayed at Flygvapenmuseum in the markings of F 21 Norrbottens flygflottilj at Luleå, with the code blue A, and represents the entire surviving legacy of one of the most significant twin-engine designs of the interwar period.