The sleek Ao 192 V1 prototype in Finland in 1938, wearing aircraft type name [Der] Kurier on the nose. By this time it had a raised, braced tailplane, as fitted to the V2 prototype first. The photograph was presumably taken in September 1938 - an Ao 192 was then demonstrated in Stockholm along with Bü 133 Jungmeister OH-SEA. It may also have been in May 1938 when the SILI aviation exhibition was held in Helsinki. Photo from: Finnish Aviation Museum

The old AGO company was resurrected by the Nazi government, and built many aircraft for the Luftwaffe. A design department was set up in 1934 and it seems that D-OAGO, the first of three prototypes of the Oa 192 light transport, first flew in the summer of 1935. There is evidence of only three Ao 192B production aircraft: D-ODAF (c/n Q4), D-OLER (Q5) and D-OSSS (Q6), the latter used by the headquarters of the Waffen-SS . Assumed to be c/n Q1, D-OAGO saw military service as SA-QA. Postcard.