Photo by: Museum Centre Vapriikki (Tampere)

Photo by: Museum Centre Vapriikki (Tampere)

DND photo.

DND photo.

Jean Batten's Percival Gull Six, G-ADPR, seen at RAF Kemble in its RAF impressment camouflage and serial. It was sold to Hunting-Percival Aircraft Ltd and restored at Luton. Eventually presented to the Shuttleworth Collection it was disposed of in 1995, re-registered as ZK-DPR it was flown once after arrival in New Zealand but now hangs from the roof of the terminal building at Auckland International Airport.

Ex ZK-ADI. Returned to civil use in 1948 as ZK-ASP. Later restored to ZK-ADI and current at the time of upload. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

A C-54E, 44-9143, which was diverted to the US Navy, near the modern tower at Hickam Field in 1945. Photo from: Naval History and Heritage Command

The prototype of the GC-1A variant of the Swift. Scrapped. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

To 65 Squadron. Sold as scrap in January 1951. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

The sole Mercury 4. Was not fully taken on charge by the RAF and became G-AGVX. Later HB-EED, VH-AKH and VH-AKC. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

The Shiden or 'George' was unusually developed from a floatplane fighter, the N1K Kyofu or 'Rex'. It was a formidable dogfighting aircraft, despite technical issues that were solved in the N1K2-J Shiden Kai with low-set wing. This is assumed to be c/n 5511, Imperial Japanese Navy tail code 201-53, which was captured in the Philippines in January 1945 and given identification number S7 by TAIU-SWPA at Clark Field. It only flew once as such as the undercarriage collapsed on landing. Note that US insignia are a bit off, with old-fashioned rudder striping serving as a warning to Allied pilots. Photo from: US Navy - National Naval Aviation Museum

The Gloster E28/39 was shown during "The 1945 Britains Aircraft Exhibition" after de end of WWII. Nowadays part of the collection of the Science Museum in London.

The prototype for the Republic RC-3 Seabee and itself based on the Spencer Air Car. The RC-1 was a three-seater while the production RC-3 had four seats and a more powerful Franklin engine Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Struck off charge in 1952. This may have been paperwork catching up and it could have already been scrapped. 21 Squadron's aircraft had been stored at Tocumwal, NSW, from 1946 and there was large scale scrapping of B-24s there around 1950. Photo from: Library and Archives NT

NL153 was the prototype C.XII ambulance. Converted to a VIP aircraft and shipped to the RAAF for the use of the Duke of Gloucester, who was governor-general of Australia. Photo shows it on a trip to Queensland by the Duke in 1945. Retained by the RAAF after the Duke returned to the UK in 1947. Sold in February 1953 and registered as VH-PDC and as a civil Anson 12. Photo from: State Library of Queensland

This is a VPB-122 squadron aircraft. Photo by Logan Coombs.

VIP transport fitted with a luxury interior and polished exterior. Carried the prime minister, governor-general and top military brass within Canada and abroad. Sold in 1948 and became N1246V on the US register. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Photo taken at RCAF Patricia Bay, a former name for Victoria International Airport. The tired looking 3714 was struck off charge in October 1946. Photo from: Library and Archives Canada

Sold to the Netherlands government as NL-308. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

No date or place with this photo of two USAAF C-47s with a Chinese Tupolev SB-2. The snow suggests north-west China where the Americans operated several airfields for supplying the Chinese army. Photo from: National Archives at College Park, Maryland