Sold in Australia as VH-EBW in October 1950. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

Preserved at the RNZAF museum. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

The one and only reconnaissance version of the B-49 to fly. It initially survived the cancellation of the bomber version to make 13 test flights. It was then grounded at Edwards AFB. In 1952 it made one last flight to Northrop's Ontario California factory where it was scrapped in 1953. Photo from: National Library of Australia

Avianca ordered two 737-100s. Photo by: Harrison Forman / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Withdrawn from use in 1951. Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

'Boeing airplane C-11', perhaps at the factory. The Boeing Model 3 was a slightly revised version of the Model 2. The other two Model 3 airframes, C-5 and C-6, were sold to the US Navy and C-11, modified from airframe C-4, was reportedly delivered to a private owner in Bremerton, Washington in July 1918. Photo source says 1917 but that seems unlikely. Photo from: Katherine Stinson Pictorial Collection / University of New Mexico

Withdrawn from use in 1952 and scrapped. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

Withdrawn from use and scrapped in 1971. Photo from: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Aircraft still registered in 2022. Photo from: National Library of Australia

NC17322 some time after its visit to Canada. The slogan 'The Lindbergh Line' and horizontal stripes on the tailfin have been added to the livery. Crashed in 1944. Photo from: Albuquerque Museum

Sold in Australia as VH-BRC in May 1950. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

Last seen in 1990 badly damaged and derelict at the now closed ET Joshua Airport, St Vincent. Not known if it was accident or hurricane damage. Registration had been cancelled in 1970. Photo from: National Library of Australia

In the era of this photo BOAC operated a quicker service with Lancastrians and a comfortable but slow service with Hythes on the UK-Australia route. Both services terminated in Sydney. At the end of 1948 Constellations replaced both types. G-AGJN was scrapped in 1953. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

The other planes are wearing the literal 'bomber' badge of the 20th Bombardment Squadron from Langley Field, Virginia. Oxnard Field was eventually swallowed by ABQ / Kirtland AFB, but was originally a separate airfield. Photo from: Albuquerque Museum

Canada's first Tracker, with MAD boom extended and radome lowered. Delivered to DHC as a pattern and test aircraft in May 1954, serialled X-500. Transferred to the RCN 13 Dec 1954 as 1500 (carried below the tailfin in this photo) and loaned back to DHC. Returned to the RCN 18 Dec 1955 as 1501. Converted to CS2F-1 standard, f/f as such 8 Jan 1957. Eventually to the Shearwater Aviation Museum for display. Often incorrectly quoted as ex BuNo 136519, but its identity is in fact unknown. Sources say that this aircraft was assembled by DHC from sections supplied by Grumman, in which case it may never have received a Grumman c/n. Tracker production numbers support this claim. Photo from: Department of National Defence (Canada)

Operated a service to Fiji from Auckland for 2½ years ending in June 1950. ZK-AMK was then returned to the RNZAF. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

Retired in March 1953 and scrapped. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

Photo from: National Library of Australia

The X-5 was the first swing-wing aircraft. It was inspired by the Messerschmitt P.1101 research plane, the unflown prototype of which was delivered to Bell in 1948, but the German jet's wing would only would have been adjustable on the ground. Photo by: Loomis Dean / Life

Another photo of Nordmeer in New York, but taken one year later on a different catapult ship and providing an excellent general view of the Ha 139. Photo by: Alfred Eisenstaedt / Life