Registered 22 July 1930. Cancelled on transfer to Belgian military aviation 18 November 1938.

I found some small album photos and thought they might be of interest. These were taken at NAS Sunnyvale (which later became NAS Moffett Field) in June 1932 and show a day when the public was allowed in to see the dirigible. For those of us that know Moffett Field it will be a shock to see nothing but a field of dry grass and weeds.

The S.91 was a lightweight fighter design. First flown in December 1931, the S.91/7 was a new prototype with an inverted sesquiplane configuration. The aircraft achieved a record average speed of 309 km/u (192 mph) over a 500-km closed circuit on 2 June 1932. It seems the photo was taken at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, that same week - Gerhard Fieseler, the posing pilot, performed at an airshow there on Sunday 5 June with his Fieseler F2 Tiger.

Registered to Imperial Airways 23 April 1930. First flew 8 Dec.1931. Built originally as an HP.42W (to which model the designation HP.45 was applied in later years but not during their flying lives nor was it reflected in the c/n.) and converted to an HP.42E in 1935. It was destroyed by fire in the airship shed at Drigh Road airfield, Karachi 31 May 1937. Cancelled July 1937.

Converted from Westland IV and registered April 1929. Exhibited at the International Aero Exhibition at Olympia July 1929, after which it went to Imperial Airways at Croydon for use by their private hire department. (The photographer described it as a 'four-seater air taxi'). Sold to Air Service Training Ltd, Hamble 24th November 1937. Withdrawn from use at Watchfield 16th August 1940. Cancelled in the census of 1st November 1945.

Sturm was the official smoke of the Nazi Party's SA troopers. This is a VL26 three-seater with a widened front cockpit, covered here. Photo by: Walter Hahn / SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek