Here it is getting ready to depart on its delivery flight. In 1963 it was re-registered as PK-GTC with Garuda Indonesia Airways. On 14 May 1963 it was wrecked on take-off from Wamena (WAJW) in a suspected case of overloading.

'Great interest from the indigenous side for the first Dakota to land at the airfield at Wamena in the Baliem Valley.' 42-23548 delivered to RAF as FD864. To KLM as PH-TCY, later PH-DAC. Operated by Kroonduif in Netherlands New Guinea as JZ-PDC between 1956 and 1963, then by Schreiner and Delta Air from Antwerp. Still flying in Mozambique in the 1990s as C9-ATH. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Larry Cole collection photo. To PK-GDN when Dutch New Guinea was absorbed into Indonesia. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

42-93463 was delivered to the Royal Air Force as Dakota Mk.III KG618 in May 1944. To KLM as PH-TDZ February 1947; to PH-DAZ April 1954; to Kroonduif subsidiary in New Guinea as JZ-PDE October 1957. To Garuda as PK-GDO February 1963. To Merpati as PK-NDE 1969, but scrapped for spares in 1970. Photo from: Tropenmuseum

Delivered in 1954 to the airline of then Netherlands New Guinea. The lake is near Jayapura, then known as Hollandia. The Beaver went to Merpati in 1962 as PK-GBA, fate unknown. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

To Indonesia register (PK-GTB) in January 1963. Damaged April 1963 and cancelled February 1964.

JZ was for Netherlands New Guinea and in 1957 KLM subsidiary Kroonduif (crested pigeon) took delivery of three Twin Pins for its operations in this rugged land. The delivery flight from Schiphol, avoiding Indonesian territory, took 14 days. Photo by: Joop van Bilsen / Nationaal Archief