Short-lived aircraft crashed in Athens on 1 December 1936. Hit a hill in fog. The captain and one passenger died. Photo from: Museum of Flight

This plane was built in 1937 and flew for LOT before the outbreak of WWII. The plane was evacuated to Romania for the duration of the war and was donated to the museum in 1963.

The opening ceremony of Malmi took place on this day, 15 May 1938. Note the substantial differences between the L-14 and the L-10 Electra, SP-BGE. Clockwise from top: Focke-Wulf Fw 58 Weihe V11 D-ALEX, DH.89A Dragon Rapide G-AFFF, Zlin Z-XII OK-LZH, Klemm Kl 35B D-EPIU, Cierva C.30A SE-AFI, Bü 131B Jungmann OH-SIL, and VL Viima VI-2. In the background are three Fokker C.X reconnaissance biplanes. Photo from: Finnish Heritage Agency

The Plage i Laśkiewicz company, manufacturer of the Lublin aircraft, built eleven F.VIIb/3ms for the Polish national airline. This was the last one, replacing the first SP-ABC (c/n 3) which was sold to Sabena. Photo by: Walter Hahn / SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek

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Old Junkers at the new Okęcie airport. Photo by: Willem van de Poll / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

In 1937 LOT opened a service to Palestine. The flying time from Warsaw to the new airport at Lydda (Lod, now Ben Gurion Airpor) was 13 hours, but the trip took 28 hours with an overnight stop in Bucharest. The other stops were Lwów and Cernăuți (now Lviv and Chernivtsi, both in Ukraine), Sofia, Thessaloniki, Athens and Rhodes. Photo from: Library of Congress

LOT received two DC-2s in August 1935. SP-ASK apparently ended up in Soviet service and was destroyed during the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Photo from: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe