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The 'Snip' is famous for operating the first transatlantic flight for KLM. Between 15-22 December 1934, it flew the routing Amsterdam - Marseille, Alicante, Casablanca, Porto Praia, Paramaribo, La Guaira, Curaçao. Covering 10488 km in 54h27. For support, the Dutch Navy submarine "K XVIII" and ships "Stuyvesant" and "Van Renelaer" were based in the Atlantic Ocean. The aircraft stayed at the Antilles and was reregistered PJ-AIS in February 1936 to KLM West-Indisch Bedrijf. Written off in April 1948 and used as fire trainer. At upload, the cockpit section still preserved at the Curacao museum. Location unknown, although likely to be Curacao.

Registered to KLM in late February 1929 and damaged in a storm near Haamstede on July 15, 1936. The registration was cancelled on August 7, 1936 and the aircraft was scrapped. Parts were said to be sold to Air France.

The aircraft was registered to KLM late April 1935 but was involved in an accident at Schiphol on Juli 14, 1935. The aircraft took off from Schiphol, bound for Malmö Sweden (with stops in Hamburg and Copenhagen). When engines 1 and 2 began losing power, the pilot was forced to return to Schiphol .The aircraft struck the slope of the number 4 highway and crashed. A fire erupted afterwards.

Delivered new 21st Sep 1979 as a standard series 206B, converted to SUD (stretched upper deck) Jan 1985 and to Phuket Air as HS-VAA 17th Dec 2003

Delivered new 15th May 1997 and current at time of upload

One of the first true DC-4s for KLM, christened that day by the acting mayor of Schiedam with the locally distilled jenever booze. Note engine maintenance in tents in the background due to the destruction of Schiphol during the war. Photo from: Gemeentearchief Schiedam

Belly titles are not a modern invention - KLM aircraft on the East Indies route carried the legend 'Holland-Java'. A reliable but conservative type, the F.XVIII (F.18) was replaced on this route by the DC-2. Snip then made the first flight by a Dutch aircraft to the West Indies, crossing the Atlantic between Praia and Paramaribo. Ironically this was in fact a ferry flight, relegating the Fokker to KLM's West Indies branch as PJ-AIS. Photo from: Leiden Photo University Libraries

Delivered new 12th Sep 2000 and current at time of upload

Delivered new 14th Jan 1994 and retired EHTW (Twenthe) 6th Dec 2017, scrapped Aug 2018

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100 years KLM. 2020 will not be remembered for the festivities around this anniversary, but the COVID-19 crisis makes it also for KLM a year never to be forgotten.

TF-AMG is crudely painted on the nosewheel door as the aircraft was acquired by Air Atlanta Icelandic in December 2019 for parting out.

This early F.VII was displayed by Anthony Fokker at Croydon in 1925. It then had a Napier Lion engine. Bought by KLM it received a Bristol Jupiter and here it has an unusual tailfin shape. Also the rudder appears to be red, white and blue. Sister aircraft H-NACJ is known to have had this too in 1926, but the Dutch army disapproved of this for civil aircraft. The provisional Bessonneau hangar was replaced by a permanent Hangar B after a whirlwind destroyed it in 1928. Photo by: Jacob Gerrit van Es / Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken

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Damaged in a landing incident at Panama City in 1983 and sold off in 1984.