Aircraft Photo of HA-AAF | Lockheed 8A Sirius | AirHistory.net #622900
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:HA-AAF
Aircraft Original Type:Lockheed 8 Sirius
Aircraft Generic Type:Lockheed 8 Sirius
Aircraft Version:Lockheed 8A Sirius
C/n (msn):166
Location
City / Airport:Budapest - Mátyásföld (closed)Map
Country:Hungary
Airport Codes:None
 
Photo Date:21 May 1932
Photo from:Peter de Jong Collection
Photo ID: 622900
Photo Comment

The last departure of the Hungarian Lockheed 8A Sirius. As NR115W Justice for Hungary, it had been flown across the Atlantic by György Endresz and navigator Sandór Magyar in July 1931. It became HA-AAF in Hungary. On 21 May 1932 Endresz and Gyula Bittay, who had replaced Magyar, went to Italy to attend the Congress of Transoceanic Airmen, but they lost their lives crashing the Sirius at Rome - Littorio (now Urbe). There was public mourning in Rome and Air Minister Italo Balbo, himself a transoceanic airman, presented Hungary with a rather less modern plane, the Fiat BR.3 HA-AAF Giustizia per l'Ungheria.

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