Inauguration of the first air services within the Netherlands East Indies, to Bandoeng (Bandung) and to Semarang from Batavia - Tjililitan (Cililitan), now Jakarta - Halim. The KNILM company was not a KLM subsidiary. The other F.VIIb/3m is H-NAFA (c/n 5069). Photo from: Wereldmuseum

PK-AFB was part of the KNILM fleet until it crashed on February 4, 1938. Sistership PK-AFC visited Australia during the many years Dutch authorities sought approval to add Australia to the KLM/KNILM route map. When approval was finally received, KNILM was using Lockheed 14s and there is no record of -AFB ever visiting Australia. The photo is believed to be at one of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) ports used by Qantas on its Australia-Singapore service. Photo from: Hudson Fysh Collection/State Library of New South Wales