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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 many captured by Germans Consolidated PBY Catalina: US ...
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 ...
Despite stubborn resistance the Japanese occupied the Dutch colonies, though numbers of aircraft found their way to northern Australia to continue the fight. Four Dutch squadrons were formed in Australia. The first of these, No. 18 (NEI) Squadron RAAF, was formed in April 1942 as a medium bomber squadron equipped with B-25 Mitchell aircraft.
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 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.
Naval Fighters Number Three. Simi Valley CA: Ginter Books. ISBN 978-0942612035. Ginter, Steve (1995). Ryan FR-1 Fireball and XF2R-1 Darkshark. Naval Fighters Number Twenty Eight. Simi Valley CA: Ginter Books. ISBN 978-0942612288. Gordon, Yefim; Bill Sweetman (1992). Soviet X-planes. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International. ISBN 978-0879384982.
Dutch trials aircraft with three 660 kW (880 hp) Wright R-1820-F52 Cyclone air-cooled radial engines. Later became the first Do 24K-1, and was the first Do 24 to fly. Assigned serial X-1. [10] Do 24 V4 Second K-1 for Dutch trials, Assigned serial X-2. [10] Do 24K-1 Swiss production by Dornier & Dutch license production aircraft, 36 built.
KDC-10 tankers refuelled allied aircraft over the Adriatic Sea, and C-130 Hercules transports flew daily sorties from Eindhoven AB to logistically support the operation. Dutch F-16s also dropped cluster bombs on Niš. In total, RNLAF aircraft flew 1,194 sorties during operation Allied Force, which is about 7.5% of the total 37,000 sorties flown.