The Foster Wikner Wicko prototype having been re-engined with a 90hp Cirrus Minor I to improve take-off performance. Tare weight was reduced from 1,170lbs to 938lbs but the price increased from £425 to £650.

Affluent visitors to Yellowstone NP could fly from SLC to West Yellowstone, Montana in a National Parks Airways Boeing 247. The small company was absorbed by Western Air Express in 1937. NC13354 was bought from United Airlines on 31 December 1935. It served in the USAAF as a C-73, 42-68854, from July 1942 to July1944. It spent it last few years with Wien Airlines. Photo by: Clifton Bray / Utah Department of Heritage and Arts

Delivered to Boeing Air Transport 26 April 1933. To UAL 1 May 1934. Converted to 247D September 1935. Later to Western Air Express. Impressed by USAAF as 42-68366 on 17 July 1942. To Lineas Aereas Mexicanas as XA-DIY on 15 June 1944. To XB-JEB and XA-GUW. Crashed near Mexico City on 21 February 1952. Photo by Clifton Bray / Utah Department of Heritage and Arts