This aircraft was transferred to the UN Navy in January 1941 as BuAer 00372. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

This aircraft is listed as crashing at Cape May, New Jersey on January 19, 1935. The photo shows it almost two years later. A rebuild explains why it was reserialled as V136 long after the 1935 accident, which had been viewed as an anomaly. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Crashed near Fellenere, Florida, on November 7, 1937, while on a a cross-country flight from Jacksonville. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Reserialled V147. Struck a beacon during takeoff and crashed July 18, 1939, Amelia River, Florida. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

This JF Duck is listed as having crashed in New Jersey on 19 January 1935 with old serial 162, yet here it is three years later at an exhibition - likely not airworthy. The Douglas Sleeper Transport, NC18109 of United Air Lines, was displayed jointly by UAL, American Airlines, Pan Am and TWA. Photo by: Bernard Hoffman / Life

US Navy participation at one of the airshows held at Vancouver - Sea Island before the war, almost certainly the 1937 edition. The JF Duck was the forerunner of the J2F Duck. Photo by: James Crookall / City of Vancouver Archives