Became DS-1 Finnish Red Cross, OH-TJA, crashed 4. December 1947 at Tammerfors, Finland

Another Koolhoven aircraft in Finnish military service although this is a Desoutter licence-build. It was donated to Finland as an ambulance aircraft by the Danish Red Cross and flown to Malmi by Michael Hansen on 28 October 1941. Hansen had flown the aircraft in the great Melbourne Air Race in 1934. After the war it was briefly OH-TSA. See other photos by clicking on the construction number. Photo from: Finnish Air Force

Now displayed at Launceston Airport, Tasmania. Photo from: Whites Aviation Collection/Alexander Turnbull Library

Formerly OY-DOD, a participant in the London-Melbourne race, this Dessouter was donated to Finland as an ambulance aircraft and it served from 1941 until 1944 in the air force as DS-1. After the war it was restored by Torsti Tallgren and Armas Jylhä. It was registered as OH-TJA on 17 November 1947. Unfortunately it already crashed a few weeks later on 4 December.

This Desoutter was bought by Count Frigyes Wenckheim. To H-MAAA, HA-AAA. Csepel, described as the Manfréd Weiss factory airfield, occupied the northeastern tip of Csepel Island in the Danube. Photo from: Fortepan

VH-UEE was registered in 1932 and operated in Tasmania for the next three years. Reregistered VH-BQE in 1952. Withdrawn from use in 1961 at Bourke, NSW. Donated to the Airforce Association, Launceston, Tasmania, in 1962 but not shipped to Tasmania until 1966. Restored and displayed as VH-UEE at Launceston airport.

Withdrawn from use in 1960. Restored in 1999.

With Daniel Jensen (left), Michael Hansen (right) flew his Desoutter to eighth place in the London to Melbourne Air Race. Later converted to ambulance in Denmark for donation to Finland following the outbreak of the Winter War. Not delivered until the autumn of 1941, the aircraft served in the Finnish air force as DS-1 until an accident in November 1944. Restored as OH-TJA in 1947, it crashed near Tampere within a few weeks on 4 December 1947.

First registered in 1930 and current in January 2019. From 1966 to 1999 it was off the register and its registration used for some of that time by a Beech Debonair.