| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | D-260 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Junkers F 13 |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Junkers F 13 |
| Aircraft Version: | Junkers F 13 |
| C/n (msn): | 650 |
| Operator Titles: | Junkers Luftverkehr |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| City / Seaplane Base: | Tromsø - Seaplane (closed)Map |
| Country: | Norway |
| Airport Codes: | None |
| Photo Date: | 21 June 1923 to 30 June 1923 |
| Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
| Photo ID: | 132602 |
| Photo Comment |
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Junkers sent this new floatplane as a rescue aircraft in support of Roald Amundsen's planned flight across the North Pole from Alaska to Spitsbergen, known today as Svalbard. It arrived in Tromsø by ship on 21 June 1923 and made some local pleasure flights. By then Amundsen had cancelled his Arctic flight but on 1 July 1923 D-260, now named Eisvogel, was still shipped from Tromsø to Spitsbergen to make some pioneering flights in the archipelago. Photo from: Perspektivet Museum This photo was added on 21 March 2019, and has since been viewed 962 times. |