DDL ordered five Vikings in 1946. Upon formation of the European SAS fleet the Viking, despite its name, was given the boot. The three surviving aircraft were sold to Misrair in 1949, the other two having crashed off Copenhagen. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich

One of two Fokker F.XIIs built in Denmark for the national airline, Merkur crashed at Kastrup on 17 December 1945. Photo by: Willem van de Poll / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The Danish airline DDL hired four German Fokker-Grulich F.IIIs in its early days. D-353 was pictured by a KLM photographer over the Amstel river, just south of Amsterdam. The same aircraft made an emergency landing very close to here at Abcoude on 15 August 1924, then in Deutscher Aero Lloyd service. Photo from: Noord-Hollands Archief

Don't shoot please, we are small neutrals! In addition to the large country titles, some neutral airliners received an all-orange paint job after the outbreak of WWII, including OY-DAM which was seized by the British at Shoreham on 9 April 1940, the day the Germans occupied Denmark. It became G-AGAY and DX117, crashing on 12 July 1941. OO-AGZ is a Savoia-Marchetti S.73 of Sabena. DC-3 PH-ALU Uil of KLM was damaged beyond repair here by German bombs on 10 May 1940. Photo from: Amsterdam City Archives