Baťa Aerodrome, Letiště Baťov Otrokovice. c 1930?? Junkers F13
As a reward, top employees were treated to aerial trips from the Bata airfield at Otrokovice, where on May Day there were flying displays and pageants. It was not far from this field that Tomas Bata died on 12 July 1932 after take-off. What is interesting is that this plane is a similar one to that in which he perished, a German registered Junkers. His plane, D-1608 was in the livery of Deutsche Schuh AG of Berlin , an F13 , and was preserved in the museum at Zlin. Deutsche Schuh was the German arm of the organisation with a factory in Ottmuth , now Otmet in Polish Silesia. This one looks like D-600, which is a similar Ju F13 of 1925 , Ringeltaube, in the livery of Lufthansa I have no idea who the people are on this original photograph,but they look more important than workers in the factory. Is that the pilot on the left with the half-mast trousers? Undated, but if the plane is D-600, it crashed near Shanghai in December 1932, so must be before that.
Baťa Aerodrome, Letiště Baťov Otrokovice. c 1930?? Junkers F13
As a reward, top employees were treated to aerial trips from the Bata airfield at Otrokovice, where on May Day there were flying displays and pageants. It was not far from this field that Tomas Bata died on 12 July 1932 after take-off. What is interesting is that this plane is a similar one to that in which he perished, a German registered Junkers. His plane, D-1608 was in the livery of Deutsche Schuh AG of Berlin , an F13 , and was preserved in the museum at Zlin. Deutsche Schuh was the German arm of the organisation with a factory in Ottmuth , now Otmet in Polish Silesia. This one looks like D-600, which is a similar Ju F13 of 1925 , Ringeltaube, in the livery of Lufthansa I have no idea who the people are on this original photograph,but they look more important than workers in the factory. Is that the pilot on the left with the half-mast trousers? Undated, but if the plane is D-600, it crashed near Shanghai in December 1932, so must be before that.