NZ3165 awaiting scrapping. The engines and metal components could be recycled but the largely wooden airframe was probably burnt. Some may have found a new life as a shed, hen house or cubby but like Australian Oxfords, they was to be no postwar civil career for the trainer. Photo from: Des White/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

41-2627 crashed after take off from 14 Mile Drome at Port Moresby on December 26, 1943. On board was a media party, two of whom were to die from their injuries. Two crew were also killed including the co-pilot. The mission objective was to film the amphibious landings at Cape Gloucester. The photo location is one of the airfields in the Port Moresby area. Photo from: State Library of New South Wales

The SISA company operated from Trieste to Turin along the River Po and from Trieste to Ancona via Pola (Pula) and Zara (Zadar), then under Italian administration. The CANT 22RI was powered by one 500-hp and two 250-hp Asso engines, enabling it to carry ten passengers. Photo from: Municipality of Trieste

Arrived in New Zealand in 1939/40 ex RAF but its serial is not known. Used as a target tug. Scrapped in 1943. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Became ZK-AAF when New Zealand adopted its own national prefix. Photo from: Museum of Transport and Technology

During Konfrontasi, a conflict between Malaysia and Indonesia, allies of the UK and Malaysia were barred from Indonesia air space. RNZAF Canberras, accompanied by RNZAF Hastings, had to make a long diversion to reach their base at Tengah, Singapore. NZ6104 was lost on November 30, 1964 when it crashed at the China Rock bombing range near Singapore. Kwajalein is the base for US nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

To the RNZAF museum in 1978. Photo from: Des White/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Stored in 1962. Sold to MOTAT in Auckland in 1978. Resold in 1982, it became ZK-MJN. Photo from: Des White/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Putting aircraft on skis in winter was still commonplace in northern countries in the 1930s, and at Västerås - Hässlö, on Lake Mälaren, an ice runway was apparently preferred over a snowy airfield. The Bulldog's serial has a prefix for F1 wing, based at Västerås until 1983. The proper serial 212 is on the tailfin. Photo from: Flygvapenmuseum

Converted to an instructional airframe in 1952 and disposed of in 1956. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Sold in 1978. Photo from: Des White/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Seen over Green Island. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

NZ5905 was sold to SAFE in February 1954, becoming ZK-BEO. Photos of it in RNZAF markings are rare. Photo from: Des White/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Made the first flight of an aircraft in New Zealand in February 1911 from Glenora Park which was part of private racetrack. The site is now housing but there is a bronze plaque marking the site. Howard Wright was an English aircraft designer active from 1908 to 1911. Seven 1910 Biplanes were built. The Walsh Bros continued in aviation and after World War I operated a flying school that became the basis of New Zealand's air force. Photo from: Museum of Transport and Technology

Operated by 5 Squadron and operated in the North West Frontier region of what was British India. Photo from: RNZAF/Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Nice panning shot of one of a batch of 281 Baltimore IIIA bombers for Britain taking off. Deliveries of these began in August 1942. US serial of this one, 41-27783. The RAF used the Baltimore in the Mediterranean theatre. FA201 struck off charge on 29 March 1945. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

In 1941, Langley Aircraft of Port Washington, Long Island, named for aviation pioneer Samuel Langley, built this twin-engined four-seater of a mahogany plywood composite material. This was known as a plastic and so this was called a 'plastic plane'. Photo date and fate of this prototype unknown, but by 1942 the attention would have shifted to the 2-4-90 second aircraft with 90-hp engines, bought by the US Navy as the XNL-1 trainer. Ironically, the 'non-strategic' plywood plastic turned out to be scarcer than aluminium. Port Washington had no runways and we found the photo was taken ten miles away at Roosevelt Field. The large hangar was just one in a row of seven. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Upon completion of its service in the French navy, ML824 was flown to Wales - see other photo - to be preserved at Pembroke Dock, a former RAF seaplane station. The Sunderland was on outside display here from 1962 until 1971 when it was moved to Hendon by road. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The Spyker V.2 trainer was the first aircraft type designed and built in series in the Netherlands, by the Trompenburg company which also made cars under the famous brand name Spyker or Spijker. Ordered off the drawing board, the V.2 first flew in March 1918. 58 V.2s were built for the Dutch army and 20 for the navy. In 1924, nine of the navy's surviving aircraft were transferred to the army, which must have replaced the type with the Fokker S.IV soon thereafter. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie