Built in 1930. Shipped to Europe for a tour of the Mediterranean by American socialite Margery Durant, December 1931 to May 1932. The pilot was Charles LaJotte. Aircraft was painted blue according to glass-plate slides which were hand-coloured early on. To Sweden as SE-EKN in 1934 for a Stockholm - Gothenburg service. Bought by the Basque government in 1936 and flown to Bilbao via Groningen and Amsterdam to be used in Spanish Civil War on Republican side, but shot down by a Republican Polikarpov I-15 on 30 July 1937, lacking Republican markings. Photo from: Bibliothèque nationale de France - Gallica

Developed from the Bristol 118 general-purpose military aircraft, the Type 120 featured an enclosed, rotating turret for the observer/gunner. First flown from Filton on 29 January 1932 with the test registration R-6, the prototype was evaluated by the RAF at Martlesham Heath later in the year as K3587. Despite their good characteristics, only two Type 118/120 aircraft were built. Photo from: Bristol

VH-UMG over the beach at St Kilda. The aircraft crashed in November 21, 1936, at Mascot airport, now Sydney Kingsford Smith International. Famed pilot Charles Kingsford Smith owned VH-UMG at the time of the photo.