S-AAAE   Junkers G.23                                             (c/n  836)

                                   

                                       By the end of the 1920s AB Aerotransport needed to increase its passenger capability and
                                       acquired four Junkers G.23s.  The G.23 was the first three engined all metal monoplane to
                                       enter airline service, and was thus the precursor of the modern multi engine airliner of latter
                                       years.
                                       Originally designed as single motor machine, two more smaller engines were added to the
                                       wings for safety..  Originally, in Germany, right after WW I, the Military Inter Allied Com-
                                       mission of Control prohibited the sanctioning of the machine on the basis that it was too
                                       high powered, and thus a military threat*..  This restriction was overcome by Junkers by
                                       building the prototype in a subsidiary plant at Fili, near Moscow.  The design was also
                                       produced under license by AB Flygindustri in Sweden with three Mercedes D.IIIa engines
                                       of 160 hp each.  These were the source of the ABA machines.    S-AAAE  (by then,
                                       SE-AAC) was written off when it crashed n the Netherlands in August 1932.   . 
                              
                                      *  By 1933 Hitler could care less about the the Commission and began building all types
                                         of high powered military machines under civilian guise.