Amazing photo of an Aeromarine flying boat flying over Bimini in the Bamahas. Photo date 17 January 1922 according to one source, but photo reportedly issued as a postcard in the autumn of 1921. Columbus sank between Key West and Havana on 13 January with the loss of four passengers and mail. Photo from: Smithsonian Institution

Struck off charge in 1947. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

G-NZAV carried this registration only briefly because New Zealand adopted the ZK- prefix at the start of 1929. G-NZAV became the third aircraft to get this prefix when it became ZK-AAC on January 4. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Photo taken at RCAF Patricia Bay, a former name for Victoria International Airport. The tired looking 3714 was struck off charge in October 1946. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Flown to England on 13 May 1940 by KLM chief pilot Dirk Parmentier. Used on the wartime Bristol - Lisbon service operated by KLM on behalf of BOAC, as G-EGBE. To NL-201, PH-TBE. Crashed at Lons-le-Saunier, France on 18 November 1946. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Named for the Dutch city of Venlo, like KLM's first Constellation, PH-TAV. PH-TFF arrived in 1949. On 23 March 1952 this aircraft burnt at Bangkok - Don Muang after the number 3 engine caught fire and a propeller blade slashed into the fuselage in flight. There were no casualties thanks to a brave Thai ground mechanic who rescued a baby boy left on board. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

'305 No 1' - this is the first Farman F.305, F-ALEF, with nine-cylinder Gnome-Rhône engines, and not F-ALEE, which was an F.306. F-ALEF had an accident in Prague in December 1934, apparently still as an F.305, and became an F.303, No 6. She is probably operated by Lignes Aériennes Farman (SGTA) here, but no markings are visible. The company merged into Air France in 1933. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Take off accident. The obsolete aircraft was not repaired. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Delivered as a maritime reconnaissance aircraft. Converted to a transport by the RCAF. Withdrawn from use in August 1945. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

The last letter of the registration above the cockpit on the can just be seen to be Q, not O. Location described as 'the south runway (piste) south of Pagan [Bagan],' but we are only aware of VYBG which is to the east of town. Photo by: Gustav Neuenschwander / ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

'B-LATB Fasan seized in Reval [Tallinn]'. We don't know why the constables took action. This F13 was operated by the Latvian airline Latvijas Gaisa Satiksmes, or Lettländische Luftverkehrs AG in German, on the Tallinn - Riga - Königsberg route. B-LATB crashed in October 1924 and was replaced by another B-LATB (c/n 570). This is assumed to be the first one because of the irregular application of the registration, with dots. The distinctive hangar belonged to the Estonian airline Aeronaut and confirms the location as then Lasnamäe airfield. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Built for the Pakistan air force (serial 95626) but delivery stopped by a 1993 arms embargo. Placed in storage with a USAF serial. In 1998 it became one of 28 Pakistani F-16s set aside for the RNZAF and was to become NZ6554. In 2002 the new Labour government disbanded the RNZAF's fast jet operations. 92-0460 remained in storage at Davis-Monthan until the USN acquired it for adversary training. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

This photo from a New Zealand collection was taken when the aircraft was attached to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. RCAF Hurricanes used by this scheme were based at Bagotville but the photo could be anywhere in Canada. 5403 survived the war and was disposed of in 1947. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Forced landed on remote Sable Island after the crew realised returning to their base at Dartmouth was no longer possible. Reports say the aircraft landed in a freshwater lagoon and a lighthouse keeper altered authorities. The crew were flown back to base in a Catalina but the aircraft was abandoned. Sable Island is subject to significant erosion. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Airtaco was Torvald Andersson's air company. Anson TX252 was delivered directly to civil - to BEA as G-AHIK in 1946. To Sweden in 1952. Sold as D-IDAM in 1956. Photo by: Esko Kukkonen / Finnish Aviation Museum

'The captain C.G. von Rosen waves his wife goodbye, though the chocks are still in place.' Adventurous Swedish Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen was hired by KLM after flying in Ethiopia. He married stewardess Hanny Krijgsman in 1938. He took a leave of absence to fly a bomber DC-2 for Finland during the Winter War, and was back in Holland just in time to evacuate a KLM DC-3 to Britain in May 1940. Apparently the RAF did not accept him because he had just visited his uncle - Hermann Göring! He worked for ABA Aerotransport until 1945 and then went back to Africa. Hanny joined the Dutch resistance and survived Dachau concentration camp. She died in 1949. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

NZ5803 photographed during a fuelling stop while flying 14 Sqn personnel to Cyprus. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

'RAF planes competing in the [mock] air fights over London.' No 501 (City of Bristol) Sqn was a reserve unit based at Filton. The second aircraft is K3675. Photo by: Edward Malindine / Daily Herald / National Science and Media Museum

Built for the Pakistan air force (serial 93740) but delivery stopped by a 1993 arms embargo. Placed in storage with a USAF serial. In 1998 it became one of 28 Pakistani F-16s set aside for the RNZAF and was to become NZ6532. In 2002 the new Labour government disbanded the RNZAF's fast jet operations. 92-0409 remained in storage at Davis-Monthan until the USN acquired it for adversary training about 2008. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Line number 8 was used as a demonstrator before delivery to United Airlines, and visited the Convair factory in San Diego where major components of the DC-10 were manufactured. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum