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Old 8th Jan 2017, 19:09
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Originally Posted by WHBM
KLM pre-war US-built fleet with names and delivery date
And PH-AKJ's name was 'Jan van Gent' which is the Dutch name for a Gannet. This is a good list and shows that both Indonesian birds and Dutch birds were used. For completeness a list like this should go further back as the practice started on the earlier Fokkers, which is where some of the more common birdnames were utilised (such as "Pelikaan" (Pelican) on a Fokker F.XVIII, they obviously had to dig deeper for the later Ps but also reused this same name on a DC-3!).

An interesting, slightly related, anecdote is linked to PH-AIO, a Fokker F.XVIII named "Oehoe" (Eagle Owl). This aircraft was flown to Curacao to be used in the KLM West Indies service and had to be renamed "Oriole" as the Eagle Owl is considered an unlucky bird in the local culture.
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