Built in Marina di Pisa and powered by Rolls-Royce Eagles, ex I-DAAR. One of four Wals bought by Nordiska, a subsidiary of Deutscher Aero Lloyd, for its Danzig - Stockholm service. To Lufthansa in 1926. Used on the Stettin - Kalmar -Stockholm route, and between Bremerhaven and Heligoland in summer. D-861 visited Oslo in July 1927, and sank following an accident on 6 October 1931. Photo from: KB - National Library of the Netherlands

Destroyed in May 1934. Photo from: The Peter M. Bowers Collection/The Museum of Flight

Lost in a accident off Corfu on January 25, 1929 as the result of a heavy landing. Photo from: The Peter M. Bowers Collection/The Museum of Flight

This Italian-built Wal was delivered to Lufthansa as D-1648. The photo is from a Dutch postcard captioned 'Dornier Wal flying boat - licence: Aviolanda, Papendrecht', but this Dutch company only built the military variant and had nothing to do with this airframe. Photo from: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

By late 1927 the SANA company operated nine Dornier Wal Cabina passenger flying boats on the Genova - Rome and Rome - Naples - Palermo routes. Services to Tripoli, Libya via Syracuse and Barcelona via Marseille were inaugurated during 1928. Dornier produced the Wal in Marina di Pisa at this time. This aircraft was reportedly assembled by Piaggio. The c/n is also quoted as 81. Note fleet number in Roman numerals! Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich