Seaplane pier at Torslanda. At the 1923 airport building is most probably ST-4 Monospar SE-ADS, which was based here. LN-DAH dates the photo between 1936 and 1940 at the latest. A new terminal was built on the north side of the airfield in 1938. Photo from: Scandinavian Airlines - SAS

Building runways is challenging in Norway and DNL acquired five Sandringham flying boats after WWII. LN-IAU is seen operating alongside two diehard seaplane Ju 52s which can just be identified as LN-KAE behind LN-KAF. As far as we can work out, LN-KAF could be either the first (c/n 5489), or the second (c/n 130714) which became the nostalgy bird "D-AQUI" - see photo 70519 for details. Sandviken was replaced by the short-lived Hjellestad water airport on 23 August 1948 and DNL became part of SAS that year. Photo from: Nasjonalbiblioteket (Norway)

The new flagship of Norwegian aviation. Transatlantic services with this aircraft did not materialize and after two years it was sold to Aéromaritime as F-AREX. Photo from: Norsk Teknisk Museum

Situated on an islet in the Oslo Fjord, Oslo's first airport maybe wasn't very practical, but it was surely idyllic! Brand new in the summer of 1936, this Ju 52 was captured by the German army in 1940 and put in Lufthansa service as D-AQUI. Returned to DNL as LN-KAF in 1946. Scrapped, but the wings were used to restore c/n 130714, which later became Lufthansa's vintage Tante Ju 'D-AQUI' - see photo 70519 for details. Photo from: Nasjonalbiblioteket (Norway)

Ex 6306 with the Portuguese Air Force.