Unknown photographer. Duplicate slide.

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Nederlands Transport Museum closed for business in March 2023. The former liquor factory was to be used for a future housing project. They were forced to find a new location, although several locations were evaluated, it never came to the construction of a new building for the museum and it's collection. The collection is not just airplanes but all forms of transport including cars, and trains, an exceptional collection. The museum will now close for ever. Some objects are up for auction. On 9 May 2025 the museum was temporary open to view the objects on auction. This DC-2 was not for sale !

Fine shot of KLM's Kwak. Captured by Germans in 1940. Photo from: Jaap de Moor collection

The C-33 was a military version of the DC-2 with a cargo door and the DC-3 vertical tail, but the standard DC-2 wing. 18 examples were built. 36-84 was used by a general who commanded the new Spokane Air Depot in 1942. It had an accident at Mines Field (LAX), California on 22 March 1942 and was written off. Presumably it still flew back to Spokane first because it was declared a CL-26 category ground instructional airframe there on 31 December 1943. Assumed to have been taken at Spokane, the photo must have been taken after May 1942 when the red dot in the US star roundel was removed.

This DC-2 crashed just west of Halle, Belgium after take-off from Brussels - Haren on a KLM service to Paris on 28 July 1937. All fifteen people on board were killed. The cause of the crash was never established. The photo is thought to have been taken at Schiphol with part of the 1928 terminal in the background. This picture completes KLM's DC-2 fleet in our database. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Odd how these aircraft types were contemporaries, although the Handley Page HP.42 made its first flight almost three years earlier than the DC-1. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Ex OK-AIC and D-AAIO. Later OH-LDB and DO-3. Crashed 7 February 1951 on takeoff due to an engine failure. The fuselage is now preserved at the Suomen Ilmailumuseo, Helsinki. Photo from: Hugo Sundström / Finnish Heritage Agency

Ex OK-AIB and D-AIIB. Later OH-LDA and DO-2. Photo by: Viljo Pietinen / Finnish Heritage Agency

This was the second DC-2 in Europe, bought by the Austrian government, but little used and sold to Swissair in March 1936. Perhaps Swissair did not like the condition of the aircraft as it was resold to Spain before the end of the year. It served as a bomber in the Civil War on the Republican side, but also carried a delegation to Ankara in 1938 for the funeral of Atatürk, as EC-AGA. To EC-AAA. We have photos of this airframe as PH-AKF in 1934 and as EC-AGA. To see them, you can click on the yellow construction number link as always on AirHistory. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Swissair's fifth DC-2, delivered several months after HB-ITO (c/n 1332). It was originally destined for Spain according to Douglas records, and used by the European agent, Fokker, as a demonstrator. During a demonstration at Croydon it wore 'X-1331', apparently a fake American NX registration, because it could not fly abroad under its temporary PH-AKF mark. HB-ISI destroyed in an American air raid at Stuttgart, Germany in 1944. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

The fourth, second and third DC-2 of Swissair, HB-ITO, HB-ITE and HB-ITA, gathered at Croydon. Winter photo from 1936 according to the source. Occasion unknown; maybe ski charter flights? Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Swissair's second DC-2, operated between 1935 and 1952. To ZS-DFW. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

The third DC-2 delivered to Swissair and the second, HB-ITE (c/n 1322). The first was HB-ITI (1321). By February 1935, Swissair had four DC-2s while KLM had none until the spring, following the crash of PH-AJU Uiver in Iraq on 20 December 1934. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

The first European DC-2 operator was KLM, but following PH-AJU Uiver, the next eleven airframes distributed through Fokker went to Austria ('line number' 2), Lufthansa (3), Swissair (4, 6, 7, 9, and 10), ALI in Italy (5), LAPE in Spain (8, EC-XAX, and 12), and France (11, F-AKHD) At least five DC-2s wore PH-AKF temporarily, but this is the Austrian aircraft - the Austrian reg A-500, applied by Douglas, is visible. It was bought as a goverment aircraft, but little used. Sold to Swissair, but quickly resold to Spain and used as a bomber. Eventually EC-AAA. Photo by: Wiel van der Randen / KB - National Library of the Netherlands

The first DC-2 for Czechoslovak airline ČLS, photographed on its day of acceptance. Flown to New York, shipped to Cherbourg and reassembled at Querqueville airfield by Fokker technicians. Crews were trained by KLM. On 20 April 1936, OK-AIA flew the first commercial service by a ČLS DC-2 from Prague to Vienna and back, and then departed to Amsterdam in the late afternoon. This schedule was perhaps too optimistic and headwind, low fuel, a failing radio, and upcoming darkness caused the captain to come down in a wheat field near Doornspijk, Netherlands. The brand new DC-2 was a write-off. Photo from: Douglas

The sixth DC-2, parked in front of the terminal at Floyd Bennett Field. NC13716 to Braniff Airways in 1937 and Rudy Arnold photographed probably the same airframe in military service wearing only 1242 in 1942. It was allocated s/n 42-61095. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

EAL DC-2 in formation with the transatlantic Vultee V-1 NR13770 Lady Peace, flown by EAL pilot Dick Merrill. Another shot shows a second DC-2 too. Supposedly the photos were taken when Merrill set out for the big flight, but it is unlikely that he would have wasted fuel to formate with the DC-2s and the photographer's aircraft. Thus they were probably taken either before or after Merrill's transatlanic return flight, or during his return to New York, as NC13731 was the very DC-2 that flew in a new propeller for the Vultee to Harbour Grace, Newfoundland; see photos 415955 & 415972. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

This is not USAAF s/n 41-242 which was an AT-6A. It is almost certainly c/n 1242, the sixth DC-2 built, NC13716 with TWA and with Braniff Airways from 1937. Braniff's DC-2 fleet went to the Defense Supply Corporation (DSC) as of 1 June 1942. NC13716 was converted to a C-32A and was taken on charge by the USAAF on 18 June as 42-61095. The photo was apparently taken in the same month. The unidentified emblem worn might depict the tailfin of a large aircraft. The letters underneath read ASC or ASG, not DSC. Does anyone know more? Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Of the 18 DC-2s delivered to KLM, no less five were written off in crashes within three years. Maraboe crashed on the bumpy runway of Bushire, Iran in July 1935, only a few months old. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives