Aircraft Photo of S-505 | Junkers K30 | Flygindustri | AirHistory.net #154032
Location
City / Seaplane Base:Schellingwoude - Seaplane (closed)Map
Country:Netherlands
Airport Codes:None
 
Photo Date:26 October 1926
Photo from:AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Photo ID: 154032
Photo Comment

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

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