Of Guinea Airways, still in one piece here. Photo from a person named Hellenthal - probably Dr Walter Hellenthal, the German vice-consul to Australia, who arrived in Wau by plane from Port Moresby on 15 July 1936. Photo from: Koloniales Bildarchiv / Frankfurt University

Australian aviator P.H. Moody's Reliant, with his name in small print on the rudder. Moody sold his aircraft in January 1937, and it was eventually destroyed in a Japanese air raid on Broome, Western Australia, on March 20, 1942. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

CF-AYW was delivered a few days later to General Airways of Toronto, a small airline founded in 1928 by Roy Brown, the pilot credited with shooting down Manfred von Richthofen. The photo source says Stinson tested seaplanes at Belleville Lake, not far from the Stinson factory airfield in Wayne. Another photo shows this location was opposite the French Landing Dam and Powerhouse that created the lake in the Huron River. Photo from: Wayne State University

The wreckage of VH-URC. While the pilot survived, the resident of the house it hit did not. Peter N Johnston photo.

VH-UGC destroyed by enemy action January 1942. Edie Creek airfield was used to support gold mining at Edie Creek before World War II. Fell into disuse. Photo by Peter N Johnston