On 13th April 1928, this Junkers W 33 aircraft made the first east-to-west crossing of the Atlantic. The aircraft bearing serial number D-1167 and named "Bremen" had left Ireland on 12th April, headed for New York. Aboard were two Germans - Baron Gunther von Hunefeld, who owned the aircraft, and Captain Hermann Kohl from the Deutsche Luft Hansa, and an Irishman - Commandant James Fitzmaurice. After a 36 hour flight in which they went significantly off-course, the trio landed the Junkers at Greenly Island in Canada, missing New York by 1200 miles. However, they had made it successfully across the Atlantic, for which they were welcomed by a ticker-tape parade in New York, and awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by the US President Calvin Coolidge.
The aircraft is now at the Ford Foundation Museum in Michigan, USA.
The "Bremen" at the start of its flight, still on the ground in Ireland. Source : Historic Wings
Source : Flying in Ireland
Source : Henry Ford collection
Germany 1979 SG 1888, Scott B560
Germany 2003 SG 3215
Hungary 1978 SG 3180, Scott C403
1. Historic Wings.
2. Article in Flight International dt 19th April 1928. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3.