This was C-11, one of two Netherlands air force Troopships leased to KLM subsidiary NLM to carry out domestic services between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Maastricht, Enschede, and Groningen. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Former RNLAF Troopship C-11 and temporary NLM Cityhopper PH-FKB. Used on UN duties all-white in 1992 and wfu in 1996. Flew with Luft Afrique, later Luft Cargo, from 1998 until a nosewheel collapse at this airport in 2001. Logos and titles faded but still visible, same goes for registration. UN re-applied to tailfin. Reported to have been named Little Solly by the mayor of Tshwane in 2017.

rehearsal for the F27 solo display. The famous take off was making speed, retracting the gear and keeping low until the end of the runway and then a steep climb out..

Aircraft is fitted with self-defense flare dispensers. Not the bottom radar(?) bulge.

A common visitor to Leeuwarden. At the time we even considered the Friendships to be boring.