The result of landing accident when the aircraft aquaplaned, slid sideways then flipped. The rear fuselage of a Blue Angels aircraft was used in the repair and it was back in service in March 1990. Withdrawn from use in 2001 and sold in 2013 in the US as N417EM. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Sold in 1978 as ZK-ENL then exported to Australia as VH-NAH. Photo from: Des White/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

What is known about this aircraft is that it served with the Royal Flying Corps before being transferred to 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. The soldiers appear to a mix of Australian light horsemen and New Zealand mounted riflemen. 1 Squadron's role was to work closely with Australian and New Zealand mounted soldiers and this photo would appear to be from that period. The caption says Egypt but may be Palestine (Israel). 4332 was withdrawn from use at the start of 1917. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

NZ1638 trialling a new all-yellow paint scheme. It was adopted, with the addition of a black rudder, to replace the red rear fuselage and tail paint scheme with which the CT-4Bs were delivered. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Photo from: RAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

The dawn of heavier-than-air passenger service across the Atlantic, 28 June 1939. Somewhat embarrassingly the flight had taken four days due to fog at the Botwood, Newfoundland stop. The aircraft carried 19 passengers, twelve crew and 60,000 letters but this was not considered a regular flight, which causes some confusion. On 28 June, NC18605 Dixie Clipper departed New York on the first regular passenger flight, via the 'southern route' to Marseille through the Azores. Yankee was back in NY on 2 July and flew the first regular pax service to Southampton on 8-9 July. She had also made the first mail flights, to Marseille in May and to Southampton in June. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The first of three S-40 flying boats for PAA, first flown on 6 August 1931. Large airliners for their day, they carried up to 38 passengers. First Lady Lou Hoover christened N80V the first Pan Am Clipper, American Clipper, on 12 October 1931. Charles Lindbergh piloted it on its first scheduled flight from Miami one week later, although he was critical of the draggy design. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

300,000 people reportedly turned out for the three-day 'flight festival' around the dedication of the new terminal at SFO. Photo from: SFO Museum

The Martin M-130 prototype, one month before its first flight. It was quite an achievement but to Pan Am, it was still not what it needed and only three examples of the M-130s were built. NC14714 Hawaii Clipper - carrying six passengers and nine crew - disappeared between Guam and Manila on 28 July 1938. Photo from: SFO Museum

Overflying Pan Am's new seaplane terminal on Treasure Island. All buildings of the Golden Gate International Exposition were razed down in 1940 to make room for a new land airport, but it became a naval facility instead. This is the second Boeing 314 airframe, the first to fly with triple tailfins. Named California Clipper, it was approaching Auckland in New Zealand on a regular transoceanic flight on 7 December 1941 when news came in of the Japanese attack against Pearl Harbor. Captain Robert Ford was ordered to proceed westward to New York and managed to complete an amazing 50,000 km trip via Australia, Java, Ceylon, Karachi, Bahrain, Sudan, Congo and Brazil. Photo from: SFO Museum

Photo believed to be at Tengah or Changi. The ferry tanks may mean it is at the end of its ferry flight from the UK because tanks were not normally fitted for combat missions over Malaya. However this is speculation. PX328 served with 33 Squadron and normally wore squadron codes when it service. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Withdrawn from use in 2001. Sold in the US as N140EM in 2012. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Replaced by Wapitis in 1928. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

NZ1936 where it forced landed with engine trouble. Trucked back to Wigram. Sold as ZK-JJU in 1998 and exported to Australia as VH-YCJ. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Later renamed Bermuda Clipper. The S-42 was used mainly on Pan Am's Miami - Rio route. Pending the completion of the Marine Air Terminal at New York - LGA, the modest Port Washington facility on Long Island was used for Atlantic flights, although revenue services only reached as far as Bermuda until the Boeing 314 became available just before WWII. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Charles Gimpel was an English photographer who travelled in the Canadian Arctic to capture Inuit life. The Otter was based here in then Frobisher Bay on a military contract to support a DEW Line radar site on Resolution Island. Photo by: Charles Gimpel / Library and Archives Canada

In snowmobile country. Crashed near its base in Timmins, Ontario on 9 November 1969. Ex 43-49567. Photo by: Charles Gimpel / Library and Archives Canada

The Super Connie looks a bit lost in EAL's 1965 'hockey stick' livery. Eastern conducted the last commercial US L-1049 flight in February 1968. N6209C to HI-228. Photo from: Federal Aviation Administration

Large flying boat, rejected by Pan Am in favour of the Boeing 314. Nicknamed 'Russian Clipper', the sole example was delivered to Leningrad by ship. Re-assembled there by July 1938. The Soviets bought a license to build the type as a bomber, but this came to naught and this prototype, designated PS-30, became CCCP-L2940 in Aeroflot's Far East division to for use on the Khabarovsk - Petropavlovsk route. It was scrapped in July 1946. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Sold as ZK-FYX in April 1991. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand