The prototype F4U Corsair (Vought V-166A) . At the time of the photo it was stationed with NACA at Langley, Virginia. Later assigned to NAS Anacostia in Washington, DC. Photo from: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

IWM have some interesting photos from the Focke-Wulf company archives, presumably appropriated in 1945. Arado Ar 64E fighters D-IBUZ and I-IBAP (c/n 0128) are known to have been built by Fw and the location is assumed to be their factory at Bremen - Neuenland airport. The nearest aircraft is almost certainly D-IDAM (c/n 0130), not confirmed as Fw-built. The radial-engined Ar 64 and inline-engined Ar 65 were produced in limited numbers. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Registered to Mildred Mary Bruce in July 1934. On 25 November 1934 she took off from Lympne, headed for Cape Town in attempt at record for longest autogyro flight, but damaged the aircraft in France. G-ACVX sold to Redhill Flying Club in September 1936. Sold to Dutch company Autogiro Import in 1937 as PH-ASA. Running out of fuel on 25 May 1938, Hanno van der Velden landed in a field near Oostwold - EHOW did not exist yet - and hit power lines when taking off again. Wreck stored at Waalhaven and destroyed by German bombing in May 1940. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

This aircraft does not appear in any FAA listing although from fragments of the registration in other photos confirms it is NC18399 as stated by the Smithsonian. Erickson & Remmert were a Waco dealer and the current FAA register shows N18399 to be a temporary registration reserved for use of manufacturers. Maybe that was always the case and this AVN-8 received a permanent registration when sold. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

This was the fourth BT-13 Valiant built. Photo from: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

First registered in 1929 and still registered in 2023. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Withdrawn from use in 1939, the sole survivor of the three J2W-1s delivered in 1937. They were at times operated on floats but the USCG preferred the J2F Duck because it was amphibious. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Registered in 1938 and still current in 2023 as N21255. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

The RS-1 was designed in 1937 by Harland Ross for actor Harvey Stephens. It was a regular at the Nationals well into the postwar era. Now preserved at the National Soaring Museum at Elmira, NY, as the Ross R-1. The FAA called it a Stephens RS-1. Photo by: Hans Groenhoff / Smithsonian Institution

Sold in France in January 1937 but destined for the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

NC600 served with the Conservation Department from 1940 to 1948 when it was replaced by a Ryan Navion. The Waco does not appear in an FAA search, so its c/n is not known. NC600/N600 appears to be a registration reserved by the Conservation Department because it was used in 1958 for its DHC-3 Otter. Photo from: Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

NC15045 parked on a beach showing off its ability to land away from airports. The American Escadrille might be the organisation of that name that was tasked with developing civil aviation in the Americas. N15045 has been preserved by the EAA Aviation Foundation at Oshkosh. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Only one V-100 was built. It was a trainer and aimed at export markets. Engine is a P&W Wasp Junior of 400hp. No sales eventuated. Registration cancelled in November 1934 as "destroyed". Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Still current in 2023 as N20304. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Looking pristine, this Kingfisher was among a batch returned to the US Navy from the Royal Navy in 1943. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Prototype of a long-range floatplane version of the SB2U. It was converted back to an SB2U-1. The designation SB2U-3 was reused for an upgraded version of the carrier-based dive bomber. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Accident at Johannisthal, the old mecca of German aviation. It was alternatively called Adlershof ('eagle's yard') after another adjacent Berlin neighbourhood. DLR were based here between 1919 and 1922 when they moved to Staaken. Before the allocation of D numbers from March 1920, the airline's aeroplanes got a fleet number, still worn here in small print. The aircraft is a LVG C.VI Kabine although the cabin of the converted reconnaissance plane is crushed here. D-14 had another crash near Hamburg on 8 May 1922, but was repaired, and seems to have survived with successor airlines Deutscher Aero Lloyd and DLH until 1928. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

'The first Frenchman after the war in Johannisthal.' Special long-range Bre 14 with fairing behind observer's head and external fuel tanks from old Breguet Br.M5 aircraft, increasing range to 1000 km. The pilot is Henry Roget with his fox terrier Folette and mechanic Rodes. They made a grand tour through Eastern Europe from 9 June to 8 September 1920. However, 9128 is also said to have belonged to the French military mission in Poland and to have made courier flights to Riga during the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921). Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

A former French Bre 14 B2 bomber which served in the Swedish army air force as s/n 9100. Registered S-AIAA to pilot Nils Söderberg in June 1923 for participation in the ILUG exhibition, with event number 1. On 5 August Söderberg won a rally between Rotterdam - Waalhaven, Holland and Gothenborg in just over four hours, beating Bertus Grasé in the Fokker DC.I, H-NABZ, by a couple of minutes. S-AIAA purchased by Swedish Red Cross in 1924, joining their Breguet 14T ambulance, S-ASAA. Both regs stricken at the end of 1926. Photo from: Flygvapenmuseum

A Bristol F.2B Fighter fitted with the Bristol Jupiter radial engine and an oleo-type undercarriage, the Jupiter Fighter was fast but short on range. Seen here at ILUG in Gothenburg, G-EBGF crashed in England in November 1923 after an engine failure, but the second of three conversions, G-EBGH, was purchased by the Swedish air force following cold-weather trials in Kiruna. Photo from: Flygvapenmuseum