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Here's a paint with an adventurous life:
DH89 #6292 was bought the KNILM, the Dutch East Indies daughter of KLM, in 1935 to perform aerial photography for an oil company in New Guinea, it was flown to the Dutch East Indies with two sisters, PK-AKU and PK-AKW. Caught in bad weather between India and Burma, PK-AKV failed to show up in Rangoon. It had made an emergency landing, and its pilot, mr Fulford, had hitched a ride on a ship to the nearest telegraph station to tell they were safe. No mobile phones in those days.. The flight arrived in Bandung, Dutch East Indies on 1 october 1935. They were shipped to Celebes and started their operations, but problems continued. Support airfields were washed away by huge storms, and in march 1936, PK-AKW overturned on landing and was written off. In november, their job was finished and they were shipped back to Batavia, where they continued to fly with the KNILM, flying passengers. PK-AKU was damaged beyond repair after a forced landing in august 1938, but PK-AKV flew on. After the Japanese invasion, it was attacked by a Japanese fighter in january 1942 and damaged. It was still under repair at Andir, when the Dutch surrendered on 8 march 1942. It is not clear what happended to PK-AKV after that...
DH89 #6292 was bought the KNILM, the Dutch East Indies daughter of KLM, in 1935 to perform aerial photography for an oil company in New Guinea, it was flown to the Dutch East Indies with two sisters, PK-AKU and PK-AKW. Caught in bad weather between India and Burma, PK-AKV failed to show up in Rangoon. It had made an emergency landing, and its pilot, mr Fulford, had hitched a ride on a ship to the nearest telegraph station to tell they were safe. No mobile phones in those days.. The flight arrived in Bandung, Dutch East Indies on 1 october 1935. They were shipped to Celebes and started their operations, but problems continued. Support airfields were washed away by huge storms, and in march 1936, PK-AKW overturned on landing and was written off. In november, their job was finished and they were shipped back to Batavia, where they continued to fly with the KNILM, flying passengers. PK-AKU was damaged beyond repair after a forced landing in august 1938, but PK-AKV flew on. After the Japanese invasion, it was attacked by a Japanese fighter in january 1942 and damaged. It was still under repair at Andir, when the Dutch surrendered on 8 march 1942. It is not clear what happended to PK-AKV after that...
