Junkers G 24

The Junkers G 24 was a German three-engined, all-metal, low-wing monoplane airliner manufactured by Junkers from 1925, an enlarged development of the F 13 designed by Ernst Zindel; the designation F 24 covered the single-engine versions. It was conceived with one engine but built as a trimotor to suit the low engine power that the Treaty of Versailles allowed in Germany, and when the Allied control commission declared the design a military type Junkers resubmitted it as the G 23, though it was always marketed as the G 24. The trimotor could keep flying with an engine out. On 1 May 1926 Deutsche Luft Hansa began flying passengers at night between Berlin and Konigsberg with its G 24s, the first time any airline anywhere carried passengers after dark, and in the summer of 1926 two G 24s flew about 20,000 km from Berlin to Peking in ten stops. At least 72 were built between 1925 and 1929, 26 of them for Luft Hansa, and the military version, the K 30, was delivered to the Soviet Union, Chile, Spain and Yugoslavia.