No date of this picture is known. By 1976 it had received a small Lufthansa logo underneath the cockpit. The aircraft was severely damaged in May 1979, but repaired in the nineties.

Named Folke Bernadotte after the Swedish Count who arranged for the rescue of Nordic citizens from Nazi concentration camps in the Spring of 1945.

Named Folke Bernadotte after the Swedish Count who arranged for the rescue of Nordic citizens from Nazi concentration camps in the Spring of 1945.

A nice historic image of the first SAI KZ.IV in the markings of the Zonen rescue organisation. Count Bernadotte used this aircraft around this time while negotiating the release of 30,000 people from German concentration camps. Photo by: Christoffersen / National Museum of Denmark

Outstanding among the delightful collection of KZ types kept at the Danmarks Flymuseum is the KZ IV twin-engined ambulance aeroplane from 1944, one of only two built. Considered by the museum as one of their most prized exhibits, KZ IV OY-DIZ was designed and built for the Danish flying ambulance service known as 'Zonen' and benefitted from the concession allowed by the wartime occupying German forces for medical flights. Powered by two Gipsy Major X 130hp engines, it possessed excellent short-field performance. It crashed in 1979 but after an extensive rebuild, remains in flying condition.

First flown in occupied Denmark in 1944, the KZ IV was designed as an ambulance aircraft. Only two examples were built but both survive, the first one airworthy in the museum at Stauning and the other one here at the worthy Technical Museum in Helsingor. On the left is a rare Saab B17 and what looks like an artillery piece on the right is in fact a tail boom of a Blohm & Voss BV 138 flying boat.

Just two KZ IV aircraft were built, this being the second in 1948. The type was initially designed in Denmark during World War Two as an ambulance aircraft.

Seen hangared at Copenhagen Kastrup