Prototype. Cancelled from the register in 1935. Photo from: National Library of Australia

Crashed at Pinkenba, Queensland, on April 5, 1938.

A pretty photo of the fifth Cutty Sark. In 1931, this machine made a sales tour in Europe and was exhibited in Stockholm. From March 1932 it was operated between Blackpool and the Isle of Man by a small company called British Amphibious Air Lines, named Progress. By April 1935 it had returned to the manufacturer on the Isle of Wight to be put into storage. It was destroyed in a Luftwaffe raid in 1942.

'The Hon. A E Guiness now owns another air yacht, a Saunders-Roe Cutty Sark, which we show here, about to set out from Cowes on a trial flight.' G-AAVX to Singapore Flying Club as VH-SAA in 1934. The Cutty Sark, named after a famous clipper ship, first flew in 1929 and this was the fourth example. Saunders-Roe were based here at Columbine Works in East Cowes, Isle of Wight. Photo from: Flight

Seiji Yoshihara in the cockpit of his Saro A.17 Cutty Sark, the only example built with a single engine, in San Francisco Bay. It appears that Yoshihara intended to fly this aircraft solo across the Pacific from the USA to Japan, but it crashed at Oakland. Details are hard to find. In 1930, Yoshihara had flown Junkers A50 Junior D-3 from Berlin to Tokyo and in 1931, he attempted a Pacific crossing in a float-equipped Junior, J-BENB, but crashed it off Hokkaido.

Registered in 1930 to Matthews Aviation and used on services to King Island. It was sold in 1934. Qantas acquired -UNV in October 1937. Slightly damaged when it landed with the gear extended on the Brisbane River near Pinkenba on April 5, 1938. Wrecked during the subsequent heavy-handed salvage operation. Photo from: National Library of Australia