Nederlands Transport Museum closed for business in March 2023. The former liquor factory was to be used for a future housing project. They were forced to find a new location, although several locations were evaluated, it never came to the construction of a new building for the museum and it's collection. The collection is not just airplanes but all forms of transport including cars, and trains, an exceptional collection. The museum will now close for ever. Some objects are up for auction. On 9 May 2025 the museum was temporary open to view the objects on auction. This DC-2 was not for sale !

Assigned to 9Regt during this deployment to Afghanistan. The helicopter gave mainly armed support to transport helicopters. The Lynx was first flown on 11 May 1979 and delivered as AH1 to the Army Air Corps on 4 July 1979. It was later converted to AH7. It was last reported as stored with Everett Aero at Sproughton (UK) in 2014. It is here seen at the AAC platform at Kandahar in the late afternoon.

The remains of the only Convair XC-99. Maybe it will get restored in the future.

Fomrer CCCP-72918 of the Soviet AF, manufactur date 30 Dec'87 and first noted operational on 9 Apr'91. Became RA-72918 in the Russian AF and offered for sale from mid-'91. Possibly sold to TransAviaService as 4L-VAS in Jun'05 or to Astral as EK-72101 in Apr'06. Became inventory of Sky with the latter registration in Mar'09.Eventually sold to South Airlines in late 2010. Was leased to Zaabu International and operated by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo since Oct'12. Written off on 1 Nov'13 after an emergency landing at Kinshasa.

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A giant leaving Kandahar. It's incredible that these huge and slow moving helicopters could survive in a high threat environment of Afghanistan. This Mi-26T was delivered to Rosvertol in Nov'92 and was transferred to Atruvera on 11 Jul'01. Moved to Vertikal-T in Mar'03, and then served the United Nations in DRC as UN-834 from Nov'05 to Jul'06. Returned to Vertikal-T in Feb'07 and was leased to DynCorp when it flew over Afghanistan up to late 2010. stored at Tver. Sold to Abakan Air on 3 Sep'20. Then became EX-06001 with MAK KG in Mar'23. Returned to Abakan Air in Jun'23.

From delivery to the USAF in 1954 as a C-119G, this Boxcar performed troop carrier assignments in both active and reserve units in Japan, Oregon, Texas and Rhode Island. After conversion to C-119L it entered MASDC storage in 1975 and was registered N37484 by Dross Metals in 1980 before being sold on for agricultural spraying operations but then around 1985 began runs with contraband TV sets from Texas to Mexico - on the sixth such flight, it was damaged after hitting a cactus on landing. After storage at Laredo, donated to the Air Commando Park in 1987 and painted as an AC-119G 'Shadow'