Registered to Air France in December 1937. Named Ville de Beyrouth and used on route to French Indochina. Requisitioned by French air force. Seized by British from Vichy forces in July 1941 and transferred to Free French, who based it in Damascus. Photo by: Robert Moisy / ECPAD

The D.338 prototype, first flown on 9 August 1935. Following modifications, it was bought by Air France, making its first revenue flight from Paris - Le Bourget, where this photo was most probably taken, to Lyon and Marseille on 13 July 1936. F-AOZA was involved in an accident at Martimprey du Kiss (now Ahfir), Morocco, on 30 June 1942, but apparently repaired and destroyed by the RAF at Toulouse in the night of 4 April 1944.

Departure of the Air Minister, Pierre Cot, to Moscow in the D.332, flown by the well-known pilot Marcel Doret. Émeraude crashed returning from a proving flight to Saigon on 15 January 1934.

Air France took delivery of 28 D.338 airliners between 1936 and 1939, including this aircraft in February 1939. The Le Bourget terminal by architect Georges Labro was inaugurated on 12 November 1937. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The Dewoitine D.332 prototype at Schiphol on a proving flight. Émeraude departed for Saigon the next month but crashed on the final leg of the return flight, near Corbigny in France in a snowstorm on 15 January 1934. The main variant of the D.332 series was the D.338 which had a rectrable landing gear and was three metres longer still! The terminal building has been reconstucted at the Aviodrome in Lelystad. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives