Probably a delivery flight. The Romanian state airline received four L-14s in September 1938 and Zürich was not a regular destination. Aircraft survived the war and was struck off the Romanian register in 1953. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Ex KNILM PK-AFP, ex USAAF aircraft that used the civil style callsign VHCXJ for operations during the South-West Pacific campaign of World War II. Flown by Adelaide-based Guinea Airways on behalf of the military. Postwar transported by road to the Adelaide suburb of Prospect to be converted to a caravan. By 1966 was being used as a garden shed. Attempts to recover it complete were thwarted by the owner's refusal to allow it to be hoisted by crane. Cut up and removed in sections, some of which ended up at the Warbirds Museum at Mildura.

Crashed on take-off from Schofields, New South Wales, on January 22, 1947 and destroyed by fire. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

One of two Super Electras briefly operated by KLM in Europe, Ekster (magpie) arrived in Rotterdam on 10 March 1938 and crashed near Schiphol during a training flight on 9 December 1938. The four crew were all killed. The accident investigation blamed the experienced instructor for turning off the starboard engine too soon after take-off, while the trainee pilot had only one hour on the type. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

A news photo, an aviation photo and a superb photo of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (left from centre, holding his hat) returning from talks with Adolf Hitler in Bad Godesberg, near Bonn. Chamberlain's declaration of 'peace for our time' after flying home in the same BA Super Electra from the summit in Munich happened six days later on 30 September 1938. Photo from: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

PK-AFO arriving in Sydney on the first KNILM service from Batavia (Jakarta). The flight took 21 hours under the command of Captain J. Schott. There was one passenger, plus mail, photos and films. PK-AFO was lost on January 22, 1940 when it crashed into the sea soon after take-off from Denpasar enroute to Sydney. One survivor among the nine on board. Photo from: Hood Collection/State Library of New South Wales

KNILM's shiny new PK-AFM on a regular service from Batavia (Jakarta) to Sydney. It was one of the KNILM aircraft to escape to Australia following the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in 1942. -AFM crashed near Katherine, Northern Territory, on March 26, 1942 when the pilots became disorientated on a flight from Brisbane to Batchelor. Crew and passengers survived but not the greyhounds being carried as cargo. They became dinner during the four-day wait for rescue. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

Withdrawn from use at Parafield in 1949 and scrapped in October 1951. John M. Smith photo.

KLM's Super Electra "Lepelaar" is operating the Schiphol-Doncaster-Ringway-Speke scheduled service on 12 August, shortly after delivery on 30 June 1938, replacing the usual DC-2. Sold to the first British Airways in August 1939 as G-AFYU and crashed off Malta on 21 December 1939.

This Super Electra was delivered to TCA on 12 August 1939 as CF-TCR. Bought by CPAL as CF-CPC on 1 July 1942 and sold on 17 November that year. Posed outside Dorval's then new bilingual terminal. Obtained from CPAL 60 years ago.

Operating the schedule from Brussels for sister company COBETA. Delivered to Trans Canada Als in September 1938 as CF-TCM. To Mahieu in April 1948. Sold as SE-BTW in August 1951 and written off 25.11.51.

Operating a scheduled service from Schiphol via Ringway to Liverpool (Speke). Taken from rooftop viewing area on 1938 terminal.