A scene like a painting in the port of Priok. Photo from: Leiden University Libraries

Note the substantial rescue winch. Upgraded to HR.5 in 1957. Remains of this helicopter are at the South Yorkshire Air Museum at Doncaster as of 2020. Photo from: Westland

The first production FK.58 fighter before its delivery flight from Rotterdam to France, by French air force pilot Capt Perrin. The Dutch civil registration was applied in washable paint. The serial assigned to this airframe was C016. France ordered 50 FK.58s, but only 14 were delivered and they saw little or no action. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Launch aircraft for the Leduc 0.21 No 01. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Aussie Austers A11-14 and A11-17 at 'Sepinggan airstrip', Balikpalan, Dutch Borneo. Photo from: Leiden University Libraries

A Heeresflieger H-34 near the ferry terminal in Norden, connecting the East Frisian Islands which were cut off by the severe winter weather of 1963. The helicopter was returning to its maritime roots as it was ordered as an HSS-1 Seabat, BuNo 150745. 94 Seabats were diverted to Germany in 1962 of which 24 were passed on to Israel. This one received serial 8061 under the 1967 system. Later to N3772N, PT-HIO. Photo by: Gerd Herold / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Frits Koolhoven's designs bore his initials whoever he worked for, and here his name is also painted on the rudder of a NVI FK.31 reconnaissance fighter. Koolhoven himself is the large man talking to an officer to the left of the tailfin. First flown in 1923, the FK.31 set some world speed records with payload flown by Charles Descamps in January 1925, but was a failure in Finnish and Netherlands East Indies military service. A Netherlands army fly-off against the Fokker C.V was lost in February 1924. This is the prototype of an improved version, seen during another unsuccessful pitch against the C.V on 11 May 1925. Registration H-NACF has been worn by this airframe. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

Opening of Sde Nov airport. Aviation initiatives in British Mandatory Palestine came from the side of Jewish immigrants. In 1937, Palestine Airways began to fly between the port of Haifa and Lydda, now Tel Aviv - Ben Gurion, but road travel between Tel Aviv and Lydda was unsafe and thus a landing ground close to the city was sought. SDV closed in 2019. Photo from: Library of Congress

Supporting a visit by US president George W Bush. Photo by: Amos Ben Gershom / National Photo Collection of Israel

The second prototype of the FK.58 fighter outside the Koolhoven factory. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Misr Airlines, a company run by Airwork in Britain, started services from Cairo to the new airport at Lydda on 3 August 1935. Flights continued to Cyprus, Haifa or Baghdad. On the right is a Short S-16 Scion of Palestine Airways, VQ-PAB. Photo from: Library of Congress

Two Syrian MiG-17s, 1033 and 1041, landed at Betzet in northern Israel after the pilots lost their way. After test flights by the Israelis, both jets were given to the United States. 1033 is visible on the right here. A Polish Lim painted as 1033 is in the Hatzerim museum. The old airfield at Betzet is occasionally used by Israeli helicopters. Photo by: Moshe Milner / National Photo Collection of Israel

A well-known photo of Hanno but it completes the eight-aircraft HP.42/HP.45 fleet in the AirHistory database. The lumbering giants could use austere airports such as the old Ottoman airfield at Samakh, although Imperial Airways later moved to Gaza and then to Lydda. Photo from: Library of Congress

Built for Swissar's photo flight in 1959. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

The Atalanta replaced the DH.66 Hercules on the Kisumu, Kenya to South Africa sector of the Imperial network in 1933. End of the line was Cape Town until 1936. From then it terminated at Johannesburg - Rand. Photo from: DRISA

'Flying above an IDF base in the south as part of the Air Force Day program.' Photo by: Yaakov Saar / National Photo Collection of Israel

Detail of an overview similar to photo 135779. Fokker F.XVIII VQ-PAF, in the background, is tied to the ground. It had an accident three months earlier and was reportedly written off. Photo by: Zoltan Kluger / National Photo Collection of Israel

The first MB.220 delivered to Air France. In the background is a Farman F.224, F-APMC, one of six delivered to the airline but rejected due to safety concerns. Photo from: Air France

Used by No 6 (Dutch) Squadron, RAF, from early 1945. Written off after landing accident on 9 May 1952. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

These bombers were supposed to deal with a Japanese invasion fleet. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)