This K30 bomber was demonstrated abroad by Junkers' Swedish subsidiary, Flygindustri, and is seen over Madrid with lowered gun turret. The Spanish air force bought this single aircraft. Press photo published in Nuevo Mundo magazine of 4 May 1928. Photo from: Bibliothèque nationale de France - Gallica

AB Flygindustri was founded in January 1925 and set up shop in a former shipyard on the islet of Ön in Limhamn near Malmö. 82% of the share capital was owned by Junkers which used the Swedish firm to circumvent Allied restrictions imposed on German aviation. Some of the buildings here still exist. S-AAAR to P-PAWA not taken up, to Lufthansa as a landplane, D-915 Wotan. The Junkers F13 S-AWAA was used by AB Aerotransport. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Stockholm's seaplane airport. The Junkers F13 is SE-AAC which has been preserved not far from here at the Museum of Technology. The little VL Sääski II in the background, OY-ASB, was only registered as such during 1931. Photo from: Tekniska museet

Built at Limhamn, Sweden, Oct.1925 and operated initially by Flygindustri as S-503. To DLH as D-903 Jan.1926. Shortly after taking off from Croydon en route to Berlin via Amsterdam on 6 Nov.1929, it encountered thick fog and turned back to Croydon, the Captain descending to maintain visual contact with the ground. It flew into tree tops on a hill in Marden Park, near Godstone, Surrey, crashed and caught fire. Of the occupants, six were killed and three injured, one of whom died of his injuries later that day. Only the co-pilot and one passenger survived.

Note the advertising at the Berlin airport for Heinkel landplanes and seaplanes and Junkers aeroplanes and engines, rather than consumer products. Photo by: Willem van de Poll / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The same airframe, the same spot, just one year later. The ÖLAG logo has appeared on the rudder and the typeface of the titles has changed. This picture was taken by Swissair pilot Mittelholzer who was flying Lockheed Orion CH-134 on a trip to Vienna. Photo by: Walter Mittelholzer / ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Now named after Wolfgang Amadeus, Salzburg's airport opened in August 1926. In the early days it was a stop on the Vienna - Salzburg - Münich - Zürich route. Photo from: Salzburg Airport

Operated by Aero O/Y. Lindarängen was Stockhom's seaplane airport before WWII. Photo by: Hugo Edlund / Tekniska Museet

The seaplane to Stockholm. Operated by Aero O/Y from June 1926 until June 1935. Photo by: Sophie Petersen / National Museum of Denmark

Demonstration in Amsterdam of the military variant of the Junkers G24 airliner, which could be operated as a seaplane. Because of the restrictions imposed on Germany, the K30 was officially a product of Junkers' Swedish subsidiary, Flygindustri. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Hangar C at Schiphol was used as a night shelter for visiting aircraft. Supposedly named Svealand, the ABA G24 crashed at Tubbergen, Holland on 31 August 1932. Behind the tail of the Farman F.170 Jabiru F-AIDT there appears to be an old Fokker F.III, D-716. There are four more Lufthansa aircraft: three Rohrbach Ro VIII Rolands, D-1712, D-1692 and D-1314, and a Focke-Wulf A 17, D-1388. The Czechoslovak Fokker F.VIIb/3m would appear to be OK-ABT, which was not registered until March 1932; however, the Jabiru is listed as destroyed in October 1931. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

The G24 trimotor was sometimes referred to as the G23 to circumvent a ban by the Allied powers. Three examples were registered in Sweden for the same reason. They were sent to Junkers' Dutch affiliate NWM which was active in the second half of 1925, although Dutch registrations were not taken up. The aircraft then went to Luft Hansa and S-AAAM became D-878 in December 1926. Allied worries were not entirely unfounded because D-878 soon served at the secret German military flying school in Russia. Photo by: Walter Hahn / SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek

Seen over the Østerport station in Copenhagen during a demonstration flight. The Marmorkirken stands out on the upper right. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Amazing picture of two Swedish Junkers seaplanes demonstrating in Amsterdam. S-505 (a temporary civil registration) was the German-built prototype of the K30 military version - sometimes called R42 in Sweden - of the G24 airliner. S-AABB was an R53 or K53, a Junkers A35 assembled by Junkers subsidiary AB Flygindustri. S-AABB would crash into the seaplane station due to wing failure, damaging the Dutch navy's Van Berkel W-A W54 which is also seen here. The photo gives a good idea of the location of the station on the east side of Amsterdam, actually opposite Schellingwoude village. The church of Durgerdam can be seen. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

International rescue. The Swedish and Finnish Junkers airliners, S-AABG and K-SALG, were involved in the rescue effort following the crash of the airship Italia in 1928. Photo by: Vilhjelm Riksheim / Perspektivet Museum

Entered service in May 1927. Seen at Tromsø while taking part in the search and rescue effort following the crash of the airship Italia on 25 May 1928. Later SE-ABG. Photo by: Vilhjelm Riksheim / Perspektivet Museum