Delivered to Australia by air, leaving Croydon on 24 September 1934.

This short-lived Express encountered icing and was damaged beyond repair in an emergency landing in Austria on 22 October 1935.

While the FK.31's service career in Finland was undistinguished, this machine made it to Latvia and Poland on an official visit by air force commander Väinö Vuori, the short man in flying garb. 3H-33, later KO-33, has a machine gun mounting in the rear cockpit here even though the Finns really only used the FK.31 as a trainer. NVI c/n 214 is painted on the nose and tail.

Frits Koolhoven's FK 31 reconnaissance fighter was a fiasco in Finland. Eight Dutch-built machines were found to be of poor quality. The four examples built locally by VL were reportedly even worse, and not accepted by the Finnish air force. Funnily enough, 'Kolho Vene' as the type was nicknamed in Finland means something like 'clumsy boat'. Information that KO-37 was lost in a crash is incorrect according to a Finnish source. Photo from: Hollandaircraft.nl

Prototype of the SUC-10 four-seater, before its first flight on 9 May 1946 by Alfred Testot-Ferry.

The SBD-3 Dauntless had been ordered by the French navy before the fall of France in 1940. From late 1943, 32 SBD-5s were delivered to the Aéronavale and some 50 similar A-24B Banshees to the French air force. The A-24s were mostly used as trainers in Morocco, but some did see action during the liberation of France. 254700 is ex 42-54700.

The Magister made its service debut with the École d'Air at Salon-de-Provence in May 1956 and No 27 was already written off on 5 September 1957. Also seen are 22 / TM and 32 / BR, written off in 1968 and 1965, respectively.

R-6A helicopter transferred to the US Navy. VX-3 was tasked with evaluating helicopters between July 1946 and April 1948, formed at NAS New York and moving to NAS Lakehurst. Photo by: Edgar Deigan

A new Fiat G.50 fighter built by CMASA, the former Dornier Wal factory near the mouth of the Arno river in Marina di Pisa. The electric railway is now a bike path. Photo from: Dan Shumaker collection

Small powerful racer designed by Frank Barnwell and built to promote Bristol's Jupiter engine. The sole example is seen here fitted with its initial 510-hp Jupiter VI with cylinder head helmet fairings. It dropped out of the 1926 King's Cup race with fuel feed problems. Rebuilt for the next edition of that event as the Bristol 99A, it crashed on 26 July 1927 when its new turbocharged Jupiter VI failed just after take-off from Filton. The pilot, Capt Frank Barnard, lost his life.

Probably the opening of Kallang on 12 June 1937. Singapore governor Shenton Thomas was flown in from Seletar in this Atalanta, Artemis.

Amiot 143 (aka 143M) bombers at Villacoublay in July 1938.

A Fiat CR.20 fighter, presumably photographed in 1931 when 91 Squadriglia was assigned to X Gruppo, 4 Stormo and moved to the Gorizia - Merna (LIPG) base. The wing received the impoved CR.20 Asso towards the end of the year. Photo from: Dan Shumaker collection

Experimental tiltwing aircraft converted from a Chase YC-122C, 49-2883. Strangely named Propelloplane by Hiller. Two Allison T40 turboprops from the XFV and XFY Pogo programmes but the X-18 also needed a J34 turbojet in the fuselage for jet reaction pitch control. First flown at Moffett Field on 24 November 1959, then moved to Edwards were photo is assumed to have been taken. A malfunction caused the aircraft to enter a spin on 20th flight in July 1962 but test pilot George Bright managed to land. Not flown again but damaged when its ground test platform collapsed and subsequently scrapped.

14 Pinto aircraft were delivered to training squadron BTG-1 at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Saufley Field, Florida from July 1958, to test the feasibility of an all-jet training syllabus. Performance was poor and the little jets were phased out in 1960. This airframe presumably survives as the Ezell EJ-1, N4229.

The Short S.8 Calcutta prototype, wearing the aircraft type name. Photo published in Flight in April 1929. Airframe named City of Alexandria by Imperial Airways. Bristol Jupiter engines eventually replaced by Armstrong Siddeley Tiger engines, see other picture.

Built in 1929 as a Vega 2. To Canadian-American Airlines for use on Minneapolis to Winnipeg route. Sold to Hanford Tri-State Airline in 1931, which became Hanford Airlines in 1936 and Mid-Continent Airlines in 1938. Air mail route 26 was Kansas City to Minneapolis. The Vega ended up with Lineas Aereas Mineras, registered XA-DEC. Last seen derelict on a beach near Ensenada, Mexico in the late 1940s.

Ex TS812. Scrapped at Stansted in 1958.

Ex 43-31820. Operated by Frits Diepen Vliegtuigen, later Aero Holland. Scrapped by January 1951.

Ex 44-76405 and KN368. Later OB-R-200.