Photo from: The Lloyd R. Lyckman Military Aviation Collection/The Museum of Flight

'On the ground at Hurn, Hampshire, before taking off on the inaugural BOAC / Qantas flight to Sydney.' Unfortunately, IWM do not provide dates with their photos online but this flight took off on 31 May 1945, piloted by Capt E Palmer. Flying time was 63 hours. The aircraft wears both the Speedbird logo and small BOAC titles above the tailplane. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

The aircraft is only a few weeks old here if the photo year 1928 is correct. Withdrawn in 1933. Photo from: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

Developed from the R-XI and first flown in 1932, the R-XVI was a small airliner by the Plage i Laśkiewicz company from Lublin in Poland, which traded as Lublin. Clearly it owed a lot to the Fokker F.VII which they had built under licence. The prototype was tested by LOT but lost out to the PWS-24. The R.XVIb was an ambulance variant with could accommodate two litters above each other, plus a medic. The first R.XVIb is seen here in Strasbourg before or after winning a contest for ambulance planes in Madrid. A total of six R.XVIbs built and operated by Polish Red Cross on behalf of the military. 11-1 is understood to be a military serial. Photo from: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

Used by a medical examiner. Registration cancelled in 1939. Photo from: The Early Aviation Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

While there are many L-5s in the background, the serials are widespread suggesting this is an airbase and not the Stinson factory airstrip. Photo from: The Lloyd R. Lyckman Military Aviation Collection/The Museum of Flight

Photo from: The Glenn E. Zimmerman World War II Collection/The Museum of Flight

A luxurious executive aircraft used by Richfield Oil president James Talbot, who invested in Atlantic Fokker and Western Air Express - a photo exists with Talbot, Anthony Fokker and his wife in the midnight blue cabin which was elaborately decorated with a zodiac theme. NC5614 delivered in June 1928. Taken in San Diego, the photo is dated 1930 by the source but aircraft was sold already in January 1929 to Northern Air Lines of Minneapolis, and soon operated by Universal Air Lines with 'Sky Diner' titles. Destroyed in a hangar fire at Chicago on 25 June 1930. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

Only four Waco MNFs were built. Power is a 125 hp Menasco C-4 Pirate inline engine. NC11246 was photographed in China in 1935. Photo from: The Early Aviation Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

Destroyed on January 1934. Photo from: The Early Aviation Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

The one and only Antelope which lost out to the Hawker Hart in a contest for light bomber for the RAF. Photo from: The Early Aviation Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

During World War I, the US Army Air Service bought 52 504Ks for its flying schools in France. Seven were shipped to the US postwar and given Air Service serials. This was one of them. Photo from: The Herman Butler Collection/The Museum of Flight

Where and when this photo was taken in not known as is the fate of the aircraft. Photo from: The Early Aviation Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

Crashed in bad weather near Selleck, Washington, on June 7, 1934. The passengers and crew survived. Photo from: The Julius A. Barr Photograph Albums and Films/The Museum of Flight

The personal aircraft of the then Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VIII. He disposed of it in 1931. G-ABBS was sold to the British High Commissioner to Iraq and would remain in the region for the rest of its existence. Initially it remained G-ABBS with British owners in Iraq and Iran until it was sold in Iraq as YI-ABB in May 1935. It remained Iraqi registered until it ended up as a wingless instructional airframe in Beirut. Photo from: The Early Aviation Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

NC11253 remained registered at the time of upload as N11253. It was first registered in 1931. Photo from: The Paul J. Madden World War II Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

The Tropical Science Mission was from late 1945 to early 1946. According to the caption, the C-54 had already visited Australia when it arrived in China. It is known from media reports that it was in Australia in January 1946. 45-559 was passed to the Mexican air force in 1960. Photo from: The William Orthman World War II Collection/The Museum of Flight

DC-1 NR223Y after its record flight across the US using the Lear Model L Lear-O-Scope, which was a direction finding loop for navigation. The loop is visible on the cabin roof. NR223Y was sold to Howard Hughes for a his round-the-world but he used a Lockheed 14 instead. The DC-1 was then sold in the UK as G-AFIF. It ended up in Spain. The William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers / The Museum of Flight

Photo may be at Grey Field, near Fort Lewis, Washington where the 91st was posted in 1936. Photo from: The Early Aviation Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight

A contender in the Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition. In 1931 it was sold the NACA and used for wind-tunnel and air testing of full-span slots. The Elizabeth S. Keast Photograph Collection/The Museum of Flight