 The contract was signed in March and DNL bought a Sikorsky S-43 flying boat, registered as LN-DAG and christened "Valkyrien".However, after the aircraft was delivered and three weeks before the route was to be inaugurated, Pan Am changed their mind, canceled the agreement and decided that the transatlantic route should instead operate via Newfoundland to Foynes in Ireland, and via the Azores in the winter.