Flown to England on 13 May 1940 by KLM chief pilot Dirk Parmentier. Used on the wartime Bristol - Lisbon service operated by KLM on behalf of BOAC, as G-EGBE. To NL-201, PH-TBE. Crashed at Lons-le-Saunier, France on 18 November 1946. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

A KLM DC-3 framed with three DC-2s, PH-AKN, -R and -S. Note the word 'Amsterdam' on the platform, and the modern spelling IJ rather than Y in the titles of the DC-3. PH-AKS was badly damaged on 28 October 1938. It was eventually repaired but only to be requisitioned for Lufthansa by the Germans, as was PH-AKR. AKN and ARX were destroyed by bombing here on 10 May 1940. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

Feathering test. Aircraft entered in the Dutch register on 18 March 1938. Unloaded in Rotterdam on 18 April. Assembled by Fokker. Delivered to KLM on 25 April. Crashed near Schiphol on 14 November 1938 on a flight from Berlin - Tempelhof. Two of the fourteen passengers and four of the five crew were killed. The modern spelling of the aircraft name, meaning kingfisher, would be IJsvogel. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives