The real CF-ARM and not the converted CASA-built Ju52/3m displayed at the Western Canada Aviation Museum. The real CF-ARM was scrapped in 1947. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

The prototype of the cabin version of the Genairco. It was converted from the standard aircraft which had first flown in 1930. VH-UOJ was shipped to Fiji where it operated as a floatplane registered VQ-FAD. In 1935 it returned to Australia and back on its wheels, became VH-UUK.

The one and only Totem was designed and built by Boeing of Canada. It flew with Canadian Airways for almost three years. Certificate of Airworthiness lapsed in 1942 and it is presumed to have been scrapped. Photo from: City of Vancouver Archives

Written off at Redcliffe, Western Australia, on October 11, 1933 following an engine failure after take-off from Maylands forced it down in a market garden. No one harmed. Photo from: National Library of Australia

The Wedell-Williams 44 was a successful racing aircraft of the early 1930s. NR536V was piloted by both Jim Haizlip and his wife May, then the fastest woman in the world. They were based in St Louis where the photo should have been taken. The other Model 44 is NR61Y/121, the Gilmore Red Lion of Roscoe Turner. Photo by: Charles Trefts / State Historical Society of Missouri

The last of eight G31s for Lufthansa, built in 1930. Fitted with Hornet engines in 1931. Later D-ADUR. On the left is Rohrbach Ro VIIIa Roland D-1327 Hohentwiel, also of Lufthansa. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

Seiji Yoshihara in the cockpit of his Saro A.17 Cutty Sark, the only example built with a single engine, in San Francisco Bay. It appears that Yoshihara intended to fly this aircraft solo across the Pacific from the USA to Japan, but it crashed at Oakland. Details are hard to find. In 1930, Yoshihara had flown Junkers A50 Junior D-3 from Berlin to Tokyo and in 1931, he attempted a Pacific crossing in a float-equipped Junior, J-BENB, but crashed it off Hokkaido.

'Refuelling at Ramla.' Roger Mollard with his Avro Ten, a licence-built Fokker F.VIIb/3m. Aircraft returned by the Iraq Petroleum Transport Company to regular Imperial Airways service in 1933. Hit a tall VLF radio mast at Ruiselede, Belgium on 30 December 1933 and all ten people on board lost their lives. Photo from: Library of Congress

14 Fokker D.XVI's (275 - 288) were delivered, of which the first few aircraft had a Jaguar engine. They were troublesome engines which often caused problems and the need for a revision well before the indicated maximum flight hours of the engine. 277 was equipped with a Panther engine in July 1932 and set an altitude record (9587 m / 31,453 ft) in June 1932. In 1935 the aircraft was equipped with a different Panther engine and a three-bladed prop (with no armament). The aircraft was eventually taken by the Germans at Texel. The pilot here is Gerhard Sandberg.

Hangar C at Schiphol was used as a night shelter for visiting aircraft. Supposedly named Svealand, the ABA G24 crashed at Tubbergen, Holland on 31 August 1932. Behind the tail of the Farman F.170 Jabiru F-AIDT there appears to be an old Fokker F.III, D-716. There are four more Lufthansa aircraft: three Rohrbach Ro VIII Rolands, D-1712, D-1692 and D-1314, and a Focke-Wulf A 17, D-1388. The Czechoslovak Fokker F.VIIb/3m would appear to be OK-ABT, which was not registered until March 1932; however, the Jabiru is listed as destroyed in October 1931. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

This S.II side-by-seat trainer was converted to an ambulance aircraft in 1931. It was fitted with a Lynx engine, hence the L below the tailplane. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

One of the most important aircraft in Australian aviation history, VH-UER was the first air ambulance. It graces the Australian $20 note along with a portrait of John Flynn, the founder of an air ambulance service in outback Queensland that evolved into the Royal Flying Doctor Service. -UER was sold in 1934 and wrecked when it ditched near Caloundra on December 8, 1935. Photo from: National Library of Australia

The second of the two Junkers G38s, photographed in flight near Dresden. The largest landplane in the world for some time, the G38 must have provided a fantastic view for the lucky passengers seated in the blended wing. D-2500, later D-APIS, entered Lufthansa service on 1 July 1932. It was eventually used by the Luftwaffe as a transport and destroyed in an air raid in Athens on 17 May 1941. Photo by: Walter Hahn / SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek

The Pander E was a sport and training sesquiplane first flown in 1926. PH-AFN was owned by Co van Tijen, export manager of Van Houten's chocolate factory. He flew solo to the Netherlands East Indies in this light aircraft, Adelaar (eagle) in 1930. He became general manager at Fokker in 1935. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

Printed from a glass plate neg. VH-UMG approaching the then Mascot aerodrome from the north, the background dominated by the chimneys of the many brickworks in the St Peters area. On the horizon can be discerned the arch of the newly finished Sydney Harbour Bridge, a view long since lost behind high-rise apartments and office towers

The first of two Orion 9B's delivered to Swissair in 1932. These were the fastest airliners of the day - 195 mph cruise for 580 miles with a 575 hp Wright Cyclone and retractable u/c. 6/8 passengers. The cockpit cover is in the open position. Painted red overall. From Swissair 60 years ago.

Two Cirrus Moths from Brisbane competing in the NSW Aerial Derby at the prewar Hargrave Park aerodrome near Sydney. No. 6 VH-UFR just beats No. 5 VH-UAV (c/n 369) at the finish. From DH A/c 60 years ago.