George C. Kuntz
To complete the story of these Fokker S.11.2 ex Israel: During the Winter of 1961/1962 Dutch/American airline pilot Geert E. Frank bought a batch of 10 to 15 used former IDFAF S.11.2 Instructors from BEDEK (IAI), so far all unidentified. They were shipped to the Netherlands, but ended up on a quay in Hamburg (Germany). While stored there in the open, there were hit by a severe storm, which damaged them all. Because of the damage they lost their value for the civil aircraft market.
In 1962 parts of two ex Israeli S.11 arrived at Teuge airfield (close to Zutphen), where they were stored in a shed.
Mr. J.C. Pilaar, a businessman from Zutphen and at that moment already owner of S.11.1 PH-UET, had brought these two from Hamburg. Some more of S.11.2 from this Hamburg batch were stored at his cement factory in Zutphen.
It is posible that Mr. Pilaar bought them directly from Mr. Frank, but more plausible is that Mr. C. Honcoop was involved in this sale seen the close business relationship Mr. Frank and Mr. Honcoop had (see below).
The intention of Mr. Pilaar was to overhaul and repair the two damaged S.11 at Teuge, but his mechanics at Teuge were not very enthusiastic. In the end the repair was dismissed, useful parts were sold and the remaining rests were scrapped.
Also the other stored S.11.2 from Mr Pilaar, those at his factory in Zutphen, disappeared and were most probably scrapped.
However in 1971 a former Israeli S.11.2 was discovered in storage with Mr. C(ees). Honcoop at Veen (north of Waalwijk). Mr. Honcoop ran a trading company which also involved 2nd hand civil aircraft.
The involved S.11.2 came originally from the batch at Hamburg and in 1962 Mr. Honcoop had bought it, together with another unidentified one, directly from Mr. Frank, the original owner of the Hamburg batch.
At first this S.11.2 was stored in a shed used by Honcoop at a milk factory near Alkmaar and later it was stored in a shed with a farmer at Koedijk also near Alkmaar. In 1968 it was transferred to Honcoop´s own storage at Veen, where it was photographed on 28 October 1971 by Fred Roos, the writer of the S.11 book. This aircraft was finally scrapped somewhere during 1974/1975. NB: There had indeed been the intention by Israel to deliver some S.11 to Ghana around 1959, but the deal was never closed, although some aircraft were being in overhaul for this purpose. The photo with the two fuselages and wings on the trailer is from summer 1962.
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