N169 is a Vickers test serial prior to handing over the RAF for evaluation. No order was forthcoming. Vanellus was the name the RAF gave the aircraft Vickers had known it was the Viking VII, the final development of the postwar World War I Viking amphibian. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

The first amphibious aircraft from Vickers. G-EAOV is the aircraft in which John Alcock, the transatlantic flight pioneer, was killed when he crashed on his way the Paris Exhibition. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Damaged by fire at Fraser Arm, British Columbia, September 16, 1932. Photo from: Ken Molson fonds - Ingenium

Used for forestry patrols until damaged in 1929. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

First flown in 1919, the first Vickers Viking was a fairly successful amphibian flying boat, used in limited numbers by various civil and military operators. Nine Vikings were used in Canada and ten by the Netherlands East Indies army. G-EAUK, the Viking III, won an Air Ministry prize and made demonstration flights between the Thames in London and the Seine in Paris. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)