There’s eight at Lasham I believe right now. Including three airworthy ones.

I think you’ll find that it’s a different aircraft that was unfortunately damaged: F-AZHD, not E. Same conversion, though.

Here’s what I know:
That’s the old ANG ramp at Van Nuys looking East. Those are 146th MAW C-97’s. 2nd P51 from the bottom is Clay Lacys, that *may* be Corky Fornofs Bearcat between it & the 2 T6’s. Looks like a C141 StarLifter next to the 707]

Super guppy, FAA DC-3, a Staggerwing.

Do you know how to find copies of Londen of Berlijn by Jan Hagens? It is not listed in Copac which is a bit surprising, nor on Amazon that I could see.

Cheers, CC

They are a very limited edition. Sometimes they pop up through Flash Aviation or boekwinkeltjes.nl

More information on the early 1940 service Amsterdam to Lissabon by KLM. Attached is a February 1940 ad for the route, and a March 1940 map of the route flown. Service started on February 25th, 1940 with a first trials flight. The route took 8 hours and necessitated stripping the DC-3 interior and fitting a spare DC-2 tank in the cabin (see sketch of interior used on route). Inaugural service was flown by captain Parmentier (it was he who some months later flew Zilverreiger to England and flew the wartime Lisbon run for years) on DC-3 Xema. Landing rights in Lisbon were heavily negotiated and cost a shocking 5,000 pounds. Some weeks later the French government announced it reserved the right to intercept and escort the KLM service to France if so desired to search the aircraft. Interesting circumstances for a new service to open. Lisbon was important to KLM as the stepping stone to a planned cross-atlantic service to the Dutch West Indies. Regular service started April 2nd.

Photo was taken between 15-9-43 and 11-3-44 (when ‘FZ was written off).

Note the difference in elevator clamps. The C-47s have the standard clamps on the elevators, the KLM DC-3 has a gust lock in the cockpit fitted to the controls, with the elevator in full up position. All KLM prewar DC-3s were fitted with these, easily removed before flying. Post-war, they were replaced by the standard external clamps on the C-47s. Famous KLM captain Gerrit Geysendorffer was killed along with his 16 passengers and 5 cocrewmembers on take off from Copenhagen in January 1947 when the aircraft took off with the clamp still fitted. After this, the clamps were modified to be attached to the rudder clamp, which is nearly impossible to miss if still fitted during taxying. ONe of those killed that day was singer Grace Moore, after which Elvis’ Graceland was named, incidently.