The first DC-2 for Czechoslovak airline ČLS, photographed on its day of acceptance. Flown to New York, shipped to Cherbourg and reassembled at Querqueville airfield by Fokker technicians. Crews were trained by KLM. On 20 April 1936, OK-AIA flew the first commercial service by a ČLS DC-2 from Prague to Vienna and back, and then departed to Amsterdam in the late afternoon. This schedule was perhaps too optimistic and headwind, low fuel, a failing radio, and upcoming darkness caused the captain to come down in a wheat field near Doornspijk, Netherlands. The brand new DC-2 was a write-off. Photo from: Douglas

Framed with Ju 52 HA-JUA of Malért and DH.86 Express G-ADUH Dryad of Imperial Airways. The DC-2 became D-AAIB with Lufthansa, OH-DLA with Aero O/Y and finally DO-2 with the Finnish air force. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich