By: snafu - 24th June 2016 at 17:54
Let your fingers do the searching. On Google.
Pre-War history
Now, this aircraft had a pre-war Scandinavian history. KLM used it, among other routes, between Amsterdam and Stockholm. On September 26, 1939, while on its flight from Stockholm to Amsterdam, a German fighter attacked this particular aircraft. A Swedish passenger on board the KLM-machine was killed and the aircraft received 80 hits. KLM-Captain Jan Moll managed to get the aircraft to Amsterdam/Schiphol. After this incident KLM painted its aircraft orange and applied the letters HOLLAND on the fuselage and wings.
In German service
But on May 10, 1940 the aircraft was abandoned at Amsterdam/Schiphol and on May 16, 1940 seized by the Luftwaffe that registered it as NA+LE. On June 15, 1940 it was passed on to Deutsche Lufthansa AG, which used it on the Berlin – København (Copenhagen) – Oslo air service. It had its first landing at Oslo/Fornebo on Monday September 9, 1940. It was used on the air service until August 1941 and had its first registered emergency landing near Oslo on August 21, 1941. On board were two passengers and two crewmembers, together with 34 kg luggage and 126.79 kg freight and airmail. The aircraft was transported by train through neutral Sweden (!) to Germany and Switzerland, where it was repaired at the Zürich workshop of Swiss airline company Swissair. This company was responsible for the maintenance and overhaul of the Lufthansa Douglas-fleet throughout the War. In June 1942 it returned into service, but did not land at Oslo/Fornebo again until October 1942.
Again the aircraft returned to regular duty and it was therefore interesting to read about the emergency landing at Nøtterøy during the winter of 1943. According to my archive the aircraft had been in Oslo on February 22, but no return flight to København could be found. So we do not know the number of passengers on board at the time of the extra-ordinary landing. We know that the aircraft was flying in southern direction towards København. According to the article the aircraft must have been on the farmland until April 1943, but this is incorrect.
It may well have been there for some time, but already on March 8, 1943 the aircraft made a regular landing at Oslo/Fornebo with one passenger, 10 kg of luggage and 12.8 kg of freight and mail. It came from Berlin and København. The final fate of the aircraft is unknown. Its last departure from Oslo/Fornebo towards København and Berlin was on August 5, 1944. It has been in service until at least September 3, 1944. One thing is for sure: KLM never got its aircraft back at the end of the Second World War. But the people of the island of Nøtterøy had experienced a unique event.
http://www.europeanairlines.no/secret-emergency-landing-at-n%C3%B8tter%C3%B8y/
By: pmpat - 24th June 2016 at 15:06
Lufthansa D-ATJG
Whilst with Lufthansa D-ATJG crashed (I think in Norway, and was trucked to Swissair for a rebuild)
Emergency landing at Nøtterøy 23.02.1943.
A cording to this story it was repeard and flown from sight…
By: longshot - 24th June 2016 at 14:15
Whilst with Lufthansa D-ATJG crashed (I think in Norway, and was trucked to Swissair for a rebuild)
By: longshot - 24th June 2016 at 14:06
QUOTE=pmpat;2320922]Looking for information on Fokker built DC 3. Operated by KLM as PH ASM. Taken over….. . Later Lufthansa D AT JG.[/QUOTE]
First of all Fokker didn’t ‘build’ any DC-3s (or DC-2s)…..they acted as sales agent for Douglas in Europe but the aircraft were all completed and test flown in California, flown to Newark on the US East coast and sea-freighted as deck cargo with the wings removed. Fokker just re-attached the wings( and propellers) near the ports of arrival (eg Cherbourg or Rotterdam) and did check test-flights before handover.
PH-ASM was painted with nationality marks (HOLLAND) when WWII commenced then further painted orange all over plus the nationality marks to indicate neutrality…photo in link shows it painted orange…a simple automotive rear-view mirror was fitted to KLM DC-3s to give the pilot warning of any attack from the rear after a shooting incident
By: Archer - 24th June 2016 at 13:28
Herman Dekker has this (from: http://hdekker.info/registermap/TWEEDE.htm):
PH-ASM Douglas DC-3-194G 2142
352 Geassembleerd door NV Nederlandse Vliegtuigenfabriek.
21.07.1939 NV Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij voor Nederland en Koloniën,
‘s-Gravenhage/*Schiphol. “Mees”
16.05.1940 Gevorderd door Luftwaffe.
NA+LE, D-ATJG
21.07.1942 Bewijs van Inschrijving PH-ASM verlopen.
Op 3.9.1944 nog in dienst van de Luftwaffe, daarna is er niets meer van vernomen.
By: ericmunk - 24th June 2016 at 13:11
Looking for information on Fokker built DC 3. Operated by KLM as PH ASM. Taken over by the Germans 1940 and registered NA+LE . Later Lufthansa D AT JG.
What is it you are looking for? Quite a long history that one?
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