Photo by: Aarne Pietinen / Finnish Heritage Agency

The Vildebeest prototypes had many different engines and got a new type number each time. Here the first prototype is the Type 209 with a Jupiter XIF engine and a civilian registration issued for visiting the 1930 Paris Air Show - might this picture have been taken there? A few months later it was successfully tested with the Jupiter XFBM, which became the Pegasus. For export it also got a Hispano-Suiza 12L and floats. The June 1930 date given for that seems to be wrong. Photo from: Vickers

Prototype Vildebeest. Later G-ABGE and sold in Spain as EC-WII (painted as EC-WLL) in 1932. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand