First flown with Fokker test registration PH-FBY on 4 November 1960. Delivered to the KLu on 17 January 1961. It was withdrawn from use 15 October 1993 and stored at Eindhoven. The flown to Soesterberg on 10 February 1994 and stored. Moved to the Militaire Luchtvaart Museum on 2 February 1997 and placed on display in demo markings. Moved to the ROC technical school in Hoofddorp, Netherlands on 10 June 2010 for restoration by students, returned to Soesterberg 4 October 2013 for storage. Painted in camo markings in September 2014 and since on display the Nationaal Militair Museum.

Photo by Klaus Mohr.

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First flown as PH-FBT on 26 Aug'60, delivered to 334sq of the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu, Royal Netherlands Air Force) on 30 Sep'60. The small transporter operated from homebase Soesterberg up to 31 Jul'96, when it was withdrawn from service and stored at Woensdrecht air base (the Netherlands). The F27 was sold on 18 Dec'97 to Valitrade. It became ZS-OEI with Luft Afrique in Feb'98 and became 5Y-BRN with Air Express in Nov'03. Later it flew with that registration with Safe Air from 2009. Safe Air was not so safe as the F27 crashed in poor visibility weather at Bossaso (Somalia) on 4 Mar'10.

In the 70s the Netherlands air force leased a couple of their Troopships to NLM to be used for domestic flights. Photographer unknown

On the brink of being phased out the good old Troopships were briefly used on behalf of the Implementation Force in former Yugoslavia. Photographer unknown

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Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

Photographer: Daniel Ruhier.

slide scan from the NK collection. - C-10, seen here in the old colour scheme, was retired in 1993. It survived and was displayed in the museum at Soesterberg in 2024.

Morning-exercises for paratroopers at Gilze-Rijen AB. The small, blurry objects visible in the distance are paragliders, just delivered by the C-9.