A very pretty Pander E, thought to be new here in the summer of 1930. It was purchased by Mr In 't Veen who applied the name Vlinder (butterfly) at least on the right hand side. The Dutch flag in a circle shape on the rudder is uncommon. The aircraft was sold to the Nationale Luchtvaart School (NLS) in 1932 and destroyed by German bombs here at Waalhaven in May 1940. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The Do 28D Skyservant prototype, first flown on 23 February 1966. The Do 28D was in fact a new design, not a cubist variant of the Do 28 of which a few examples are seen on the ground at the factory. D-INTL to D-IBUN and N7154 of Butler Aviation. Crashed on 6 December 1968 near Sønderborg, Denmark. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Instead of the big Fokker F.XXXVI (F.36), KLM selected the Douglas DC-2. On the right is not the sole F.XXVI but a smaller F.XXII, PH-AJP Papegaai. The DC-2 Gaai was KLM's second example, after PH-AJU Uiver. It arrived in the port of Rotterdam in April 1935. Delivered through Fokker with 'line number' 13, it was already lost on 20 July in a crash in Switzerland which killed everyone on board. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Struck off charge in 1965. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Forerunner of the Do 27. Two protypes were built in Spain by CASA in Seville in 1954 and flown to Getafe for testing. This is the second, which had its Elizalde Tigre engine replaced with a Continental O-470, as seen here, in 1955. The aircraft was taken to Germany where production of the Do 27 was set up. Information from Johan Visschedijk who says that the Do 27 P2 returned to Spain in 1956 with an unknown fate, but aire.org indicates that it became D-EBHC in 1961. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Scrapped in 1958. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

A bus stop sign has been brought in an attempt to sell the Aerovan as a regional airliner, perhaps at Woodley. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The Heinkel He 70 Blitz prototype, first flown on 1 December 1932. It set eight world records for speed over distance. To D-2537 in June 1933; to D-UHUX in 1934. Crashed in Carcassonne, France on a Lufthansa flight to Seville, on the mail route to South America, on 3 November 1934. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

XK141 later converted to an FGA.9. After RAF service was sold to the Chilean air force and has been preserved. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Attached to the Multinational Force and Observers in Sinai. Transferred to Australian Army Aviation in 1990 before being retired and passed to the Merredin Military Museum in Western Australia. Interestingly, A2-485 had crashed in November 1977 and was supposed to be written off. After a long period in storage it was rebuilt and would serve into the 21st century. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Photo assumed taken shortly before the Monospar Croydon's flight to Australia. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

A nice photo showing blind flying hood in operation. Ex NM123, taken on charge by the RAF in January 1944, but possibly surplus and not used. To RLS in 1946. Following four early crashes involving RLS Tigers, the Dutch CAA demanded fitment of the so-called 'bed board' tailfin. This seems to have taken place circa 1948. PH-UAI to other owners from 1960, to N8223 in 1970. Reg stricken as destroyed by fire at Plum Island Airport, Massachusetts on 17 October 1977. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands).

WP514 was one of four Canberras (the others were WF886, WJ858 and WT508) that were destroyed in a hangar fire at Akrotiri, Cyprus on November 27, 1957 following a bomb explosion caused by EOKA guerrillas. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Accident as a result of colliding with Harvard NZ972 during take-off. Lake Grassmere was a WW2 training airstrip. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Ex PG629, not PG627 according to seasoned researcher Herman Dekker. Tiger "R5148" at Prague - Kbely is said to be ex PH-UAM, but Dekker notes that this is most uncertain as fuselages, wings and documents of a batch of aircraft sold to America were combined randomly. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The Reading Sky Observers, described as forerunner of Air-Britain, installed this Ju fuselage as a clubhouse at Woodley in 1947. It arrived there for scrap by Miles. Built by Amiot in March 1944, c/n 641038 was delivered to Lufthansa as D-AUAV Julius Nimis. On 23 April 1945 it escaped from Berlin - Tempelhof with passengers. On 3 May it made one of the last DLH flights, from Flensburg to Copenhagen and Malmö and back. Captured by British. Allocated serial AM104 but a reader writes that his father rode in 'D-AUAV' on a transport flight from Farnborough to RAF Perton and back on 9 August 1945. Its last flight was on 23 August to Farnborough for an exhibition of German aircraft. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

FK.51 intermediate trainers of NEI army aviation over Java, wearing orange triangle markings introduced in late 1939. Serials are K-102, K-104, K-105, K-106, K-107, K-110, K-113, K-115 and K-120. The numbers were upped by 100 during 1940, so K-105 is the same airframe as K-5. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

This aircraft, ex BuNo 46521, was the first of a batch of six taken bought by the Netherlands navy. It arrived at Schiphol on 19 January 1951, but crashed four days later when landing at the Aviolanda works in Papendrecht for modifications, and was a write-off. The intended Dutch serial 16-211 (P-211) was transferred to ex BuNo 46581 (c/n 1945). Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The CW-20 prototype, originally flown with twin fins as the CW-20T - it appears in photo 367081 although the tail is not visible. Tail redesigned and airframe rebuilt as the CW-20A. USAAF took delivery of it as a C-55 (not C-46) but soon returned it to Curtiss-Wright so it could be sold to BOAC. Operated between Gibraltar and Malta. Scrapped in October 1943. Photo from: Imperial War Museum

CF-CMS was a British-built Lancaster bomber that was converted by Victory Aircraft in Canada to a transport for Trans-Canada Air Lines. It entered service as a transatlantic freighter in July 1943. Passenger approval was granted in 1944. CF-CMS crashed and burned at Dorval on June 1, 1945 while trialling Rolls Royce Merlin 85s in Avro Lincoln cowlings. Sometimes listed a Victory Aircraft Lancastrian 10. The designation used here is from the Historic Canadian Civil Aircraft Register Project. Photo from: Imperial War Museums