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

Registered 13 April 1921 and delivered to KLM the same day. Suffered engine failure and made an emergency landing on the Goodwin Sands 19 Oct.1923 with an incoming tide. The four occupants were rescued by a passing cargo ship but the aircraft was lost to the sea. Cancelled 13 Nov.1923. In the background is Farman F.60 Goliath F-ADDT (c/n.6935-228) of the Cie.des Grands Expresses Aeriennes, later to Air Union as 'Languedoc' and withdrawn from use 7 Dec.1932. (The power check against the chocks with the 'ground crew' holding the tail down adds to the atmosphere, albeit a polluted one!).

Crashed in 1922, no details. Photo from: Ken Molson fonds - Ingenium

Overflying the Thousand Islands off Jakarta, then Batavia. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

Still with "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services" titling, before QANTAS was used. Damaged at Blackall, Queensland, March 13, 1923. Qantas photo.