At the time of the photo attached to the Anacostia naval air station. This aircraft saw war service as a catapult-launched floatplane. Lost off Rennell Island in South Pacific Feb 8, 1943 when operating off the USS Louisville. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

This aircraft was later rebuilt as a CW-22 with the c/n 22-57. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

In the late 1930s, Alfred Renard conceived the most ambitious aeroplanes ever of Belgian design: the R.36 series fighters and the R.35, a pressurized airliner. It was to carry 20 passengers to the Congo colony. Professor Auguste Picard, immortalized as Tintin's Professor Calculus, was involved in the design of the pressure cabin. The prototype was supposed to make only taxi runs on 1 April 1938, but took off and then crashed. Test pilot Georges Van Damme lost his life. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Originally G-ACKY, this aircraft was exported to Australia in 1938, becoming VH-ADV(1). Passing through a succession of owners, it was struck off after an accident in 1955. However, the following year the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales restored it as VH-RSL. Two years later it was sold and changed again to VH-BAH. Still current as of 2019.