'New aircraft-bomber for the navy.' The blunt tower of Ransdorp is seen in the background. Schellingwoude was a good seaplane harbour and Fokker seaplanes could easily get here from the old waterfront factory. Landplanes had to be moved to Schiphol by barge right through the Amsterdam canals until 1950. T-10 struck off charge at Surabaya, Java in 1940. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

Aircraft built by Fred Thaheld for William Tremaine who intended to fly to Japan non-stop. Junkers-inspired but with braced wing. Forward visiblity over fuel tank through periscope as in Ryan NYP. Entered for Dole Air Race but crashed en route to the start in Oakland, killing pilot and navigator. Named Spirit of John Rodgers. N number, possibly 1239, not worn. Two other airframes said to have been built may have been smaller aircraft. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

Dating approximate. A famous aviator, Clarence Chamberlin tried to start his own airline using several Curtiss 53 Condors. It was apparently linked to New York & New England Airways. A former NYRBA Line and Pan Am machine, NC664M was registered to Chamberlin's wife when levied upon by the sheriff of Kings County (Brooklyn) on 31 October 1938. It burnt at Takla Lake, British Columbia, on 18 June 1942 while in American Export Airlines service under contract for the US military. Plans were made in 2010 to salvage the flying boat. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

The Fleetster prototype in a demonstrator livery, with an NX reg. This should be a later shot than our photo of NC657M. Apparently the plane was returned to the manufacturer after the demise of NYRBA Line in September 1930. Photo from: Consolidated / Gerald Balzer collection

The Fleetster was designed for use within South America by NYRBA Line, a forgotten competitor to Pan Am in which Consolidated's Reuben Fleet held an interest. The Fleetster would fly through the night with evening mail to catch up with the diurnal NYRBA flying boat at its night stop. Pan Am's powerful backers deprived NYRBA of a US Post Office contract. NYRBA could not survive and NC657M was returned to the factory. The factory airfield was north of Buffalo. Photo from: Consolidated / Gerald Balzer collection

Originally the last Sikorsky landplane, the S-37 was designed in 1927 for René Fonck to compete for the Orteig Prize, the prize Lindbergh won with his New York - Paris flight. This second example, the S-37-2, was built as a bomber for the USAAC, in association with Consolidated. Both S-37s saw airline service later on. Registered NR942M by 1934, the S-37-2 set out from Chicago on a flight around the world, captained by one William H Alexander. This was to improve relations between the USA and the USSR. It crashed in the North Atlantic, however, on 17 October 1934. Construction number also given as 1 or 4. Photo from: Flight

F-51Ds of the 12th Fighter Bomber Group at Jinhae (Chinhae), known as K-10 during the Korean War. Photo from: US Air Force

The US Army bought four Fleetsters as VIP transports, one Model 17-1 as the Y1C-11 and three Model 17-2s as Y1C-22s. The fresh C-22 designation was assigned even though the older aircraft was upgraded to much the same standard as the C-11A. Photo from: US Air Force

One of five F-27s for Avensa. To Ozark as N4304F in 1963. Later operators included Mountain West Airlines. To Time Air in 1974, C-GWRR. To Pacific Alaska Airlines in 1977 as N777DG. Crashed at Fairbanks in 1980. Wreck used to rebuild c/n 18, remainder scrapped. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

KC-97G tankers of the 4045th Air Refueling Wing. 'F-22' is painted on the refuelling boom of 52-2763. The second aircraft is 52-2799. Photo from: Wayne State University

This 1939 airframe did not come to New Zealand until 1957. Reportedly named Spirit of Tasman Bay, ZK-BUT was the last Electra flying in New Zealand until damaged here on 18 February 1959 as the right main landing gear collapsed on arrival from Nelson. The aircraft is statically preserved at the MOTAT in Auckland, painted as ZK-AFD Kuaka of Union Airways. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

One person on the ground was killed and another injured when Meteor Air Transport's Trip W-959 from Teterboro crashed into a house 1 km east of DET airport. The photo source indicates the above-mentioned street corner. The C-47 was apparently repaired, and eventually sold to Brazil. Photo from: Wayne State University

Alameda Island once boasted two airports: San Francisco Bay Airdrome and Alameda Airport / Benton Field. Maddux used the latter and Pan Am had a flying boat terminal here from 1935 until 1939. The site was then expanded as NAS Alameda and the Bay Airdrome was closed. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

John Livingston came first in the 1929 Ford National Reliability Air Tour in this Waco. Livingston's Midwest Airways company ran airfields in Monmouth and Aurora, Illinois, and Waterloo, Iowa as advertised on the hangar. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

The FC-2 was the series variant of the FC-1 prototype, which had been designed for Fairchild's own aerial photography business. NC5574 was originally registered to Fairchild Aerial Surveys. The FC-2 was improved to produce the Fairchild 51 in 1930 and this airframe was modified to Model 51 standard. To Mexico as X-BADV in 1948. Photo from: Wayne State University

The first Northrop Gamma, first flown on 3 December 1932. Sold to Texaco for $40,000. As NX12265 Sky Chief flown from Los Angeles to New York in 13 hours and 27 minutes by Frank Hawks. Sold to motorboat builder Gar Wood of Detroit on 21 August 1934. Pilot Joe Jacobson bailed out before NR12265 Kinjockety III exploded over Kansas during the 1936 NY to LA Bendix race. The gas tank stood hazardously close to DET until the 1960s. Photo from: Wayne State University

We think the titles may read Peter Pan Fresh Bread, a brand baked in Kalamazoo by the Schafer Bakery. To the right is a Stinson SR-8B, NC16186, with a Wako YKC, NC14039 on the far right. Photo from: Wayne State University

Built in 1937, ex VH-AAU of Guinea Airways. To Union Airways as ZK-ALI in August 1946. Into storage as a backup aircraft in 1947 when Union Airways were absorbed by NAC. Last flew in 1951, cancelled as wfu 24 Nov 1953. Scrapped at New Plymouth in 1961. Photo from: Palmerston North City Library

The Model 53 Condor was an airliner variant of the Model 52/B-2 Condor bomber, an earlier design than the T-32 Condor II of 1933. NC984H took part in the 1929 Ford Reliability Tour. It is wearing its event number 29 here. To NC985V in 1930. Photo from: Wayne State University

Wonderful picture from the South Island. Photo by: Maurice Thompson / Palmerston North City Library