Two new Fokker airliners for KLM, registered in July 1932. Though a conservative extrapolation of the Fokker F.VII-3m, the F.XVIII gave reliable and successful service. PH-AIP Pelikaan is on the left. Oehoe became PJ-AIS in the Dutch West Indies, renamed Oriol. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives

With the introduction of the DC-2, KLM transferred two F.XVIII (F.18) aircraft to its West Indies Branch, PH-AIS Snip making a transatlantic flight and PH-AIO Oehoe being shipped. They became PJ-AIS and PJ-AIO and the latter was renamed Oriol. Between June 1940 and early 1942 Oriol was used for patrol flights against the German submarine threat. Unfortunately both F.XVIIIs were scrapped after their retirement from KLM duty in 1946, although Snip's nose survives in a Curaçao museum. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie