Paulus Potter did not gain altitude after take-off from Rwy 05, now short Rwy 04, and crashed through the airport perimeter fence at Schipholweg, near today's police aviation base. It was a sunny Whit Monday and two girls among the specators were killed. Photo by: Harry Pot / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Crashed while in service with the Peruvian air corps, with two dates given - December 6, 1943 or April 10, 1945. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

V185 continued in USCG service until the end of World War II. It was disposed of in 1946 as NC95400. The aircraft is current in 2023 on the Canadian register as C-FUAZ. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution

Schiphol one year after the war, with an armada of British Austin K2/Y ambulances. The shiny 1939 DC-3 of Swissair, HB-IRE, contrasts with the untitled olive drab KLM C-47A, PH-TBH, ex 42-100731. It became MM61766 in 1950 and is preserved at Vigna di Valle. On the far right are several C-54s, including NL-307. See crop for DC-3 PH-TBD and DC-4 PH-TAT. There are also two DH.89s in the picture. Photo by: Luuk Vrind / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Extended nose with windows of the converted F-17 Felix. Photo by: Luuk Vrind / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Damaged over Berlin, B-17F 42-3490 headed for Sweden and landed in Malmö on 21 June 1944. One of seven B-17s converted to F-17 Felix transports by Saab, SE-BAN was used by SILA, a company merged into SAS in 1948. Withdrawn from use in October 1948 and scrapped in 1950. The reason of this visit to Schiphol is not certain, but other photos show children in winter clothing who were possibly given a holiday in Sweden. Photo by: Luuk Vrind / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Photographer not known. The Aer Turas Britannias were heavily employed on the transport of live cattle from Ireland to Italy in the 1970s.

'Members of the General Commison [for the Netherlands East Indies] have left for Indonesia again by KLM plane.' NL-312 is still in military uniform but on the far right is PH-TAA, ex NL-303, already in KLM livery. The NGAT aircraft always had paper PH registrations. NL-312 never wore PH-TAN, as this was changed to PH-TBT in February 1946. The Skymasters were formally transferred to KLM in August 1947 but as PH-TAA shows, repainting started earlier. Photo by: Harry Sagers / Nationaal Archief

74-72396 delivered to USAAF in January 1945. To AA in 1946. To Air France in 1949 as F-BELL. Leased to Air Vietnam in 1962. Burnt at Saigon in 1969. Seen on the left is the Friedkin School of Aeronautics building. Kenny Friedkin started Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1949. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

Ex USAF 48-607.

photographer unknown probably taken in Asia during the Vietnam War

Looking a bit sad these days is the ex PNG ex RAAF C-47B P2-003. Still an amusement at the Amaroo Hotel.

The source wrongly states that this photo shows the departure of Skymaster '313' to the East Indies with members of parliament in 1946. Since the aircraft is NL-300, what we see here is almost certainly the departure of the first postwar flight to the East Indies (Indonesia) on 10 November 1945, captained by KLM chief pilot Dirk Parmentier. Photo by: Willem van de Poll / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

This L-12A was built by Lockheed as NC16077 in October 1939. It was shipped to England in April 1939 aboard the SS Aquitania, registered G-AFTL for photographic duties around Europe and North Africa. This plane was the last British registered aircraft to leave Germany before the start of WWII. After the outbreak of the war it retained its civil reg. and was used as a camera ship and to test the efficiency of aircraft reporting system. It was badly damaged when a parachuted mine hit the hangar at Heston so returned to Lockheed for repairs. It would not return to UK skies again until March 2022.

Ex Soviet AF 22 Yellow. Made its last flight from St Petersburg to Lipki Airfield near Minsk in 1977 and displayed at the old Belarus State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (as 56 Blue) before being relocated in 2011 to Borovaya Airfield for temporary display at the Museum of Aviation Technology. Moved again in 2013 for display at the new Belarus State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (N53.9162 E27.5379).

F/F 12 July 1958 as N246V for Continental Airlines. Sold to Channel Airways 13 Dec.1966 but leased back to Continental the same day, until delivered to Southend 19 Feb.1967 and registered to Channel Airways as G-AVHK 21 Feb.1967. Scottish Flyer titles applied Jan.1969 for the Southend-Aberdeen bus-stop service, which was suspended 28 Nov.1969 due to losses incurred. Scottish Flyer titles removed Feb.1970, then placed in open store at the end of the bulbfield flights in June 1970 and used for spares. Scrapped July-August 1972. Cancelled 21 Mar.1973 as PWFU.

The famous wheel barrow show routine.