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Dutch: trainer/Maritime patrol: 13: 11: 1927-1942: 12 were transferred from Europe to Dutch East Indies after war in Europe was lost Fokker F.XVIII: Dutch: airliner/Maritime patrol: 0: 5: 1940-1942: stop-gap ASW aircraft, later reverted to airliner Fokker T.VIII: Dutch: Maritime patrol: 11: 0: 1938-1940: some aircraft escaped to England and ...
On 14 November 1934, design proposals for a new fighter aircraft were submitted by Fokker to the Luchtvaartafdeling (Dutch Army Aviation Group). [2] Fokker's design team, led by Erich Schatzki, and based at the firm's newly completed plant in the southern district of Amsterdam, had sought to incorporate and combine various new concepts and recent features from successful fighter aircraft ...
The Fokker G.I was a Dutch twin-engined heavy fighter aircraft comparable in size and role to the German Messerschmitt Bf 110.Although in production prior to World War II, its combat introduction came at a time the Netherlands were overrun by the Germans.
At age 20, while studying in Germany, Anthony Fokker built his initial aircraft, the Spin (Spider)—the first Dutch-built plane to fly in his home country. Taking advantage of better opportunities in Germany, he moved to Berlin, where in 1912, he founded his first company, Fokker Aeroplanbau, later moving to the Görries suburb just southwest of Schwerin (at ), where the current company was ...
Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-370-00033-1. Francillon, Rene J. (1970). Royal Australian Air Force & Royal New Zealand Air Force in the Pacific. Aero Pictorials 3. Fallbrook CA: Aero Publishers Inc. LCCN 76-114412. Griffin, John A. (1969). Canadian Military Aircraft Serials & Photographs 1920–1968. Publication No ...
The German invasion of the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, rapidly overwhelmed Dutch resistance and the MLD aircraft were redeployed to France before the Dutch formally surrendered on 15 May. Shortly after, the MLD was ordered to Britain, where Dutch personnel formed No. 320 Squadron RAF, Coastal Command, in June 1940.
In October 1941 the Netherlands government in exile ordered 48 DB-7C planes for use in the Dutch East Indies. Delivery had been scheduled for May 1942 but because of the desperate situation US government agreed to divert 32 DB-7B Boston III aircraft to the Dutch East Indies in advance. [26] The first six were delivered by ship in February 1942.
On 1 January 1942, the Dutch forces joined the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command, but at the onset of the Japanese assault the ML-KNIL was not up to full combat strength. Of the aircraft that had been ordered, only a small number had been delivered, and many were obsolete models.