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

Taken over by Lufthansa in August 1939 as D-AAIE. Destroyed by Allied bombing at Stuttgart on 14 August 1944.

A little mishap on the Prague - Zürich - Geneva - Marseille route. ČLS was Czechoslovakia's international airline while ČSA then focussed on domestic services. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

Formerly PH-AIQ Kwartel of KLM. To ČLS in October 1935, To Palestine as VQ-PAF in 1938, but soon written off after a bad landing on 13 January 1939. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich