Aircraft Photo of D-1925 | Junkers W 33c | AirHistory.net #125528
Location
Location:In Flight
Region / Country:Victoria, Australia
 
Photo Date:November 1932
Photo from:Ben Dannecker (via David Carter)
Photo ID: 125528
Photo Comment

Flown from Germany to Australia as a floatplane by Hans Bertram and Adolph Klausman. Went missing after leaving Koepang May 14, 1932. Found in remote part of Western Australia on June 15 but crew had sailed off in one of the floats. They were found near death by Aborigines on June 22. D-1925 flown to Perth in September 1932 using a DH50 float. Converted to landplane. Bertram flew it across Australia and is the pilot in this John Harrison photo. With him is famed Scottish-Australian aviator Scotty Allan. Bertram later flew Atlantis back to Germany where it became D-OVYL.

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