[Royal Netherlands Army. Aviation] Vliegtuigboek F.K.49, no. 950

Cloth, 30 x 21 cm. Logbook for the Koolhoven F.K.49, a photographic survey aircraft with onboard darkroom, built in 1935. The Dutch army ordered 3 examples of the airplane, of which 2 examples were never completed as the Koolhoven factory was bombed in May 1940. The present logbook belongs to the only finished example used by the Dutch Army, 1 of 4 ever built. The plane was used as an air ambulance, parachute trainer and general transport aircraft. The last entry in the log is dated 27 May 1940. During WWII, the plane was destroyed by German troops.