Photo: McDonnell Douglas Corporation.

For most the past 75 years A30-9 has been in the open with its wings removed. It was part of Sid Marshall's collection of DC-2 spares at Sydney - Bankstown and then held in the Camden Aviation Museum yard. In Victoria it was parked at Tyabb airport and is now in the storage yard of the Australian National Aviation Museum (formerly the Moorabbin Air Museum) at Melbourne - Moorabbin. But briefly it was hangared and its wings attached at Melbourne - Essendon as part of a project to return the aircraft to the skies. Project terminated after severe corrosion found.

Delivered to Eastern Air Lines as NC13738 in 1934. Joined the RAAF in 1941 as A30-14, and withdrawn from use in Jan 1947 and stored. Forty years later, in Feb 1987, it was bought by the Dutch Dakota Association. Still carrying faded RAAF markings the DC-2 was transported to the Netherlands, for intended restoration as the famous PH-AJU "Uiver". This project never got off the ground and it remained in storage at various locations in the Netherlands until delivered to the Nederlands Transport Museum on 31 May 2018. They restored it into these KNILM colours with fake registration PK-AFK. The real PK-AFK was DC-2-115G c/n 1375.

Coming in from Baghdad, the DC-2 encountered a severe thunderstorm and it was impossible to locate Dekelia - Tatoi airport in Athens. The experienced captain, Jan Moll, decided that an emergency landing in a field near the beach in Voula was the safest option, and although the aircraft sustained serious damage, no one was hurt. Note that the location is very close to Ellinikon (LGAT), but that airport did not exist in 1937. The DC-2 was shipped to Holland and repairs were completed in December 1937. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Crashed on a training flight after the idle starboard engine would not pick up. Hit the ready room of an AAA platoon on the NE side of the airport near the bridge. One soldier killed, five wounded. Forward fuselage reads Vrachtdienst (cargo service). Aircraft repaired by December 1939 but destroyed in the bombing of Schiphol on 10 May 1940. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Ex OK-AIC, D-AAIO, OH-DLB and OH-LDB. Name still vaguely visible on the forward fuselage. [Nikon D300 + Nikkor AF-S 18-200mm VR]

Now that's a nice welcome commitee. Built by NV Ned. Vliegtuigenfabriek (as c/n 25) and registered to KLM Nederlands and Colonies on May 7, 1935. In the early morning of October 28, 1938, the aircraft was operating a postal flight from Cologne and landed hard in fog. Afterwards, the fuselage was put on display at Schiphol for months. Although a different source mention that the aircraft was repaired after all. On December 3, 1938 the registration was cancelled. On May 16, 1940 it was requisitioned for Lufthansa and it became NA+LF and D-ABOW. Written off in Berlin on February 11, 1944.

'Transfer of the last two Swissair DC-2s to crews and representatives of Phoenix Airlines.' DC-6 HB-IBA is in the background and the terminal of new Kloten airport is under construction. ZS-DFW was HB-ITE and already crashed on 29 August 1952 in Sudan during a cargo flight from South Africa to Southend. HB-ITO became ZS-DFX. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Name still vaguely visible on the forward fuselage.

Part DC-2 (fuselage and wings) and part DC-3 (tail and centre section). XA-DOT crashed Iztaccíhuatl Volcano on August 11, 1945. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Returned to Pan Am as NC14271 in 1940. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia

Colour image of Marshall's DC-2 in the years after it was grounded following a landing accident

This was the first of the new generation of modern, all-metal, American airliners in Australia. It was registered new to Holyman's Airways on 5 May 1936. Holyman's later became ANA. The aircraft was struck off and broken up at Essendon on 19 December 1947. This photo is probably after repairs following an accident at Forrest on 2 February 1942. The port undercarriage hit a boulder and collapsed, and the strut went through the wing. The propeller was also damaged. (CAHS/Ivan Hodder collection)

The reenactment flight reaches historic Laverton aerodrome where the 1934 competitors finished.

On the road - a KLM DC-2 on the East Indies route. Karachi's airport, across the road from RAF Drigh Road, developed from a never used station for British airships in the 1930s. Photo by: Arnold Heim / ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

The last evening of her presence before going back home to the Aviodrome. She was here for almost a full week after the Oostwold Airshow because of strong crosswinds at Lelystad.

You probably wouldn't expect this, but this old lady actually had the honor of giving away the lowest low pass of the day! Absolutely brilliant to see that she could still work her magic back then!

Destroyed in an air raid on Schiphol on May 10, 1940.