The navy's training aircraft lined up. The occassion may have been the delivery of the last of 15 new Fokker S.9 elementary trainers. The S.9s, middle row, replaced the antiquated S.IIIs, on the right. On the left are Koolhoven FK-51 intermediate trainers.

Assigned to the so-called Strategic Aircraft Group, which held a summer camp on Texel in the summer of 1938. The island's airfield had opened in 1937. Aircraft crashed and was written off on 16 November 1939.

A total of 17 D.XVI fighters was delivered to the Dutch army. There were troubles with the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar engines. This aircraft received a new Panther engine in 1935, and a three-blade prop. Apparently it was no longer armed.

Delivery of the first four D.21 fighters for the Dutch army air force. They are not armed yet. A month latre during the Munich Crisis the service could only form three small fighter flights, one with D.21s, one with D.XVIIs and one with C.10 reconaissance biplanes.

The C.I served in the Dutch army air force from 1920 until 1939, lastly as a trainer. This airframe was written off after flipping on its back on 16 June 1936, and this may be assumed to be that crash. It still has the original BMW inline engine.

This AT-11 was ordered by the NEI air force and was to have been A-14, but delivered to the Royal Netherlands Military Flying School at Jackson with the serial 42-3070, based on the c/n. To the USAAF, 42-3070 was a B-17. The strange serial is clearly visible on the port side of the nose in another shot. In the background here are P-39 Airacobras in US markings, including 42-18885. Upon the closure of the school in February 1944, the Kansan went to the USAAF, becoming 44-72016. Later PP-CCF with Cruzeiro do Sul; crashed on 15 November 1957.

After the F.36 - or F.XXXVI - airliner of 1934, Roman numerals in the Fokker designations were on the way out for obvious reasons. The C.10 reconnaissance biplane saw combat in Dutch and Finnish service during WWII. 710 is flying in formation with 705 and 714 here. The city below has been said to be Amersfoort, but it is in fact Assen.

Fokker's succesful C.V was the principal aircraft in the Dutch army air force from the late 1920s. Refitted with a Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine many C.Vs were still in service at the time of the German invasion. 639 flew bombing missions against German airborne troops near The Hague on 10 May 1940.

First flown in 1924, the S.IV was the standard elementary trainer in the Dutch army air force. This aircraft has been refitted with a 130-hp Armstrong-Siddeley Mongoose engine. It is seen with another S.IV, 116, and two Fokker C.1 advanced trainers, 500 and 539.

Rare glimpse of this KLM DC-3, a few months old at this time and destroyed by German bombs here on 10 May 1940. The airport sightseeing bus is on the left. Detail of photo 123841 with Fokker G.1 fighters in the foreground.

One of the first batch of ten FK-51 intermediate trainers of the Dutch army air force.

Fokker's last biplane fighter was quite a stunner. Ten D.XVIIs were delivered to the Dutch army air force. By May 1940, seven remained in service with the advanced flying school on Texel Island, where 204 was destroyed by German strafing. Three others carried out one operational mission to the Grebbe Line front on 12 May, flown by rookie pilots.

Undelivered G.1 'fighter cruisers' at Schiphol, now Schiphol East. The factory was actually in North Amsterdam but aircraft were moved to Schiphol by barge. A KLM DC-3, PH-AST, and a Lockheed 14, PH-ASL, are also seen, as well as the Schiphol sightseeing bus behind the DC-3.